fcibrarp  of  "the  theological  Seminary 

PRINCETON  •  NEW  JERSEY 

PRESENTED  BY 

John  Stuart  Conning,  D.D, 

The  cause  of  world  unrest 

DS  141  . C25  1920a 


THE  CAUSE  OF 
WORLD  UNREST 


With  an  Introduction  by 
THE  EDITOR  OF 
“THE  MORNING  POST” 
(OF  LONDON) 


G.  P.  PUTNAM’S  SONS 
NEW  YORK  AND  LONDON 
XEfoe  ftntcfeerbocfter  press 


Copyright,  1920, 

BY 

G.  P.  PUTNAM’S  SONS 


PUBLISHERS’  NOTE 

On  the  ground  of  its  intrinsic  historic  importance, 
and  of  the  widespread  interest  it  has  attracted  on 
the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic,  there  seems  to  be 
good  warrant  for  the  publication  of  an  American 
edition  of  The  Cause  of  the  World's  Unrest. 

The  American  publishers  desire  to  make  clear, 
however,  that  they  do  not  accept  responsibility 
for  the  soundness  of  the  conclusions  presented  in 
this  volume.  They  have  issued  the  book  because 
of  their  belief  that  the  American  reading  public 
should  be  afforded  an  opportunity  of  examining 
the  material. 

It  is  the  contention  of  the  author  that  certain  of 
the  plans  for  domination  outlined  in  the  documents 
upon  which  his  volume  is  based  have  apparently 
been  followed  in  the  recent  movements  in  Russia. 

The  publishers  desire  to  point  out,  what  the 
author  of  the  volume  has  himself  emphasized,  that, 
while  the  statements  presented  do  reflect  upon  the 
purpose  and  the  actions  of  certain  groups  of  Jews, 

m  •  • 

111 


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and  of  certain  groups  of  Freemasons,  there  has 
been  no  intention  of  bringing  accusation  against 
the  Jewish  race  as  a  whole,  or  against  the  Free¬ 
masons  as  a  society. 


New  York,  Sept.  20, 1920. 


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The  difficulty  in  arriving  at  an  accurate  under¬ 
standing  of  the  problem  of  the  Jews  lies  in  the  fact 
that  there  is  a  distinct  Jewish  religion  and  a  dis¬ 
tinct  Jewish  race.  Where  one  ends  and  the  other 
begins,  or  whether  both  mean  one  and  the  same 
thing,  are  subjects  which  are  discussed  in  the  fol¬ 
lowing  pages.  We  Gentiles,  especially  those  of  us 
who  are  of  Anglo-Saxon  origin,  exact  and  yield  the 
utmost  tolerance  in  matters  of  religion.  We  have 
accepted  the  theory  of  citizenship  which  pays  no 
regard  to  a  man’s  religion  but  only  asks  of  him,  in 
return  for  the  rights  of  his  citizenship,  a  proper 
sense  of  its  duties.  Both  in  America  and  in  the 
British  Empire,  we  accord  naturalization  with 
freedom  and  we  do  not  question  the  patriotism  of 
the  naturalized  but  take  this  for  granted.  Yet  in 
moments  of  national  gravity,  when  the  State  is  in 
danger,  especially  from  a  foreign  foe,  we  are  in¬ 
clined  to  watch  with  some  degree  of  natural  sus¬ 
picion  those  in  our  midst  who  are  of  enemy  origin. 


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There  have  been  innumerable  occasions  when 
the  loyalty  of  a  new  citizen  to  his  new  State 
has  been  admirable:  on  the  other  hand,  both 
here  and  in  America,  we  have  found  that  race 
instincts  have  been  stronger  than  oaths  of 
allegiance. 

But  in  the  case  of  the  Jews,  we  find  a  people 
which  has  preserved  both  its  religious  and  its 
racial  ideals  intact  through  many  generations  of 
cruel  persecution.  A  race  which  has  persisted  in 
spite  of  such  terrific  pressure,  constantly  applied 
and  often  without  mercy  or  justice,  must  be  ac¬ 
knowledged  to  be  a  great  and  virile  nationality  in 
the  mere  fact  of  its  persistence.  But  when  we 
consider  that  this  race  has  not  merely  persisted, 
but  has  achieved  enormous  power  and  influence  in 
every  civilized  country,  our  admiration  is  easily 
aroused.  Yet  there  is  another  side  to  the  pic¬ 
ture.  How  are  you  to  regard  these  strangers 
in  your  midst?  Are  they  Americans,  Jewish 
Americans,  or  American  Jews?  The  answer 
to  this  question  is  the  solution  of  the  Jewish 
problem. 

Jews  will,  however,  reply  with  assurance  that 
they  are  not  a  race  but  a  religion  and  that  to  differ¬ 
entiate  between  them  and  other  religious  bodies 


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is  sheer  prejudice  and  bald  Anti-Semitism.  In  some 
cases  this  claim  is  justified.  There  are  in  England 
Jewish  families  which  have  lived  here  for  centuries 
and  their  devotion  to  their  country  is  beyond 
question.  It  is  necessary  to  distinguish,  therefore, 
between  those  Jews  who  have  definitely  adopted  a 
single  nationality  and  those  to  whom  the  Jewish 
nationality  is  the  only  one  that  counts.  How  is 
one  to  distinguish?  There  again  lies  another 
great  problem  in  this  greater  problem  of  Jewry  in 
the  world.  Roughly  speaking,  the  only  way  to 
mark  out  a  line  which  would  separate  the  good 
Jewish  citizen  from  the  bad  Jewish  citizen  is  to 
apply  the  political  test.  As  a  rule,  though  it  is  not 
without  exceptions,  a  Jew  who  is  politically  active 
in  a  country  is  also  racially  active.  But  there  are, 
of  course,  many  Jews  who  are  indifferent  to  the 
politics  of  the  country  in  which  they  live  and  yet 
are  ardent  Jewish  nationalists.  In  a  word,  be¬ 
cause  the  Jews  can  and  do  possess  a  dual  nation¬ 
ality,  they  must  remain  suspect  from  the  point  of 
view  of  the  man  who  acknowledges  exclusive 
allegiance  to  a  single  country.  This  suspicion, 
which  seems  to  me  to  be  natural  and  by  no 
means  exaggerated,  goes  by  the  name  of  Anti- 
Semitism. 


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Are  the  great  mass  of  Jews  working  towards  a 
definite  goal  or  are  they  mere  ordinary  citizens 
against  whom  envy,  suspicion,  and  long-dated 
religious  animosity  have  provoked  an  unfair 
prejudice?  The  answer  to  this  question  will  be 
found  in  this  book.  Lately  there  has  been  pub¬ 
lished  both  in  America  and  England  a  translation 
of  a  work  entitled  “The  Protocols  of  the  Elders 
of  Zion.”  It  is  difficult  to  say  whether  or  not  it 
is  a  genuine  document.  I  am  quite  sure  that,  if  it 
had  been  published  in  these  countries  ten  years 
ago,  it  would  have  been  received  with  incredulity 
and,  perhaps,  contempt.  But  today,  after  our 
experience  of  the  War,  the  Peace  Conference,  and 
the  doings  of  the  Jews  in  Russia,  it  has  received 
everywhere  a  great  deal  of  earnest  study  and  con¬ 
sideration.  Many  of  its  prophecies  are  being 
fulfilled  before  our  eyes  and,  because  of  this,  we 
are  justified  in  giving  to  it  a  greater  credence  than 
could  have  been  possible  ten  years  ago.  Jewish 
writers  and  newspapers  have  denied  with  indigna¬ 
tion  the  authenticity  of  the  protocols.  But  even 
if  indisputable  proof  were  adduced  tomorrow  that 
they  are  a  forgery,  there  would  still  be  asked  the 
same  question  which  the  protocols  have  provoked 
and  are  provoking  every  day.  Have  the  Jews 


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a  foreign  policy  of  their  own  with  a  definite  end 
in  view? 

It  would  be  difficult  to  deny  to  that  section  of 
Jewry  which  is  best  described  as  political,  a  defin¬ 
ite  national  policy.  There  is  nothing  inherently 
wrong  or  improper  in  this.  All  that  we  Gentiles 
ask  is  that  acknowledgment  should  be  made  that 
such  is  the  case.  When  that  is  made  clear,  we 
can  then  judge  whether  or  not  such  policy  is  to 
our  advantage  and  we  can  act  accordingly.  Yet 
many  Jews  attempt  to  deny  that  they  have  any 
political  ambitions  apart  from  the  interests  of  the 
country  in  which  they  live.  This  denial  can  carry 
no  weight,  as  the  reader  will  acknowledge  after 
reading  these  pages.  And  it  becomes  incumbent 
upon  us  therefore  to  study  the  nature  and  scope 
of  this  Jewish  policy  in  order  to  see  how  far  it  is 
compatible  with  our  own  national  policies.  This 
book  is  an  attempt  to  give  an  outline  of  the  po¬ 
litical  aims  and  objectives  of  political  Jewry.  But 
a  word  of  warning  is  necessary.  Political  Jewry 
does  not  comprise  all  Jewry.  There  are  many 
Jewish  citizens  both  in  America  and  here  who 
differ  from  the  rest  of  us  only  in  their  religion.  A 
blind  Anti-Semitism  directed  against  all  Jews  is 
both  bad  policy  and  an  act  of  injustice  to  Jewry. 


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But  while  we  must  be  just,  we  must  also  be  firm 
in  our  determination  not  to  allow  a  duality  of 
national  policy  in  one  and  the  same  citizen. 

H.  A.  Gwynne, 

Editor  The  Morning  Post , 
London. 


September,  1920. 


INTRODUCTION 


Those  who  have  studied  their  history  must  at 
times  have  been  astonished  at  the  ease  with  which 
popular  movements,  honest  and  sincere  in  them¬ 
selves,  have  been  manipulated  by  clever  and 
unscrupulous  men  to  their  own  personal  advantage 
or  to  further  their  own  political  aspirations.  The 
people  have  throughout  the  ages  presented  a 
pathetic  spectacle.  Time  and  again  they  have 
been  used  with  most  barefaced  effrontery  as  a 
means  of  producing  results  which  they  them¬ 
selves  never  desired.  Indeed,  in  many  cases, 
they  have  suffered  terribly  from  their  own  achieve¬ 
ments.  Nothing  is  more  pitiful  than  the  persistent 
betrayal  of  the  people  by  their  leaders  and  nothing 
more  splendid  than  the  people’s  refusal  to  believe 
it.  In  earlier  history  popular  movements  were 
difficult  to  create  and  direct  unless  they  were 
purely  local.  Kings,  princes,  governors  stood 
between  the  masses  and  their  exploiters.  Dis¬ 
tances,  too,  were  great  in  the  days  before  railways, 


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and  communication  was  difficult.  But,  roughly- 
speaking,  the  people  were  prevented  by  established 
authority  from  being  victimized.  Today  all  that 
is  changed,  and  we  now  live  in  an  age  which  will  be 
known,  perhaps,  in  history  as  the  age  of  the  ex¬ 
ploitation  of  the  people. 

This  exploitation  of  the  people  has  in  later 
years  become  something  of  a  fine  art.  The  party 
machine,  which  was  at  first  merely  the  instrument 
by  which  a  party  tried  to  impress  its  views  on  the 
electors,  has  in  many  cases  taken  charge  of  the 
party,  so  that  this  machine  and  not  its  leaders 
decides  what  shall  or  what  shall  not  form  part  of 
the  programme.  Battle  cries,  “slogans,”  phrases, 
and  catchwords,  deliberately  framed  so  that  they 
should  conceal  the  truth  or  create  a  false  impression 
have  now  become  part  of  nearly  every  political 
campaign.  Do  our  politicians  ever  ponder  over 
this  surprising  fact,  that  the  greatest  response  to  a 
semi-political  appeal  that  England  has  ever  seen 
took  place  in  1 914-15,  when  the  call  was  to  go  out 
to  death?  And  they  have  so  little  knowledge  of 
the  people  they  govern  that  they  are  surprised 
when  the  most  tempting  of  battle  cries,  telling  the 
people  how  much  they  can  have  for  the  mere  ask¬ 
ing,  remain  without  result.  The  explanation  of 


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•  • 
Vll 

this  is  simple  enough  and  yet  it  is  far  too  high  for 
the  understanding  of  the  mere  politician.  It  con¬ 
sists  in  this  truth,  that  the  people  of  this  country 
can  only  be  really  roused  by  an  appeal  to  their 
better  nature.  That  is  the  strength  of  England. 

We  are  seeing  today  how  the  exploitation  of 
the  people  can  be  achieved  with  comparative  ease 
because  the  people  throughout  the  civilized  world 
is  enfranchised  and  there  is  no  one  to  stand  be¬ 
tween  the  exploiters  and  the  exploited.  If  we  look 
back  in  history,  we  shall  find  that  the  disappear¬ 
ance  of  this  intermediate  influence  has  not  been 
altogether  fortuitous.  There  have  been  kings 
who  exploited  their  people  just  as  Lenin  is  today 
exploiting  the  Russian  people,  but  they  have 
mostly  paid  forfeit  with  their  thrones,  as  Lenin  one 
day  will  pay  forfeit  with  his  life.  But  the  tempta¬ 
tion  to  get  at  the  people  and  to  use  them  for  ends 
to  which  they  are  indifferent  and  of  which  they  are 
ignorant  has  been  great.  The  pages  of  this  book 
will  trace  the  threads  of  a  conspiracy  engineered 
by  people  whose  main  object  has  been  to  destroy 
utterly  anything — kings,  governments,  or  institu¬ 
tions — which  might  stand  between  them  and  the 
people  they  would  exploit. 

Many  who  read  the  story  of  this  subterranean 


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•  •  • 
vm 

scheming  as  it  is  unfolded  in  this  book  may  perhaps 
be  disinclined  to  admit  the  correctness  of  the 
author’s  statements  because  of  the  startling  con¬ 
clusions  to  which  they  lead  up.  But  I  would  urge 
the  reader  to  cast  aside  all  prejudices  and  to  judge 
the  facts  brought  out  on  their  merits  as  facts  and 
to  suggest,  if  he  can,  other  conclusions.  The  main 
outline  of  the  contents  of  this  book  is,  in  brief, 
that  there  has  been  for  centuries  a  hidden  con¬ 
spiracy,  chiefly  Jewish,  whose  objects  have  been 
and  are  to  produce  revolution,  communism,  and 
anarchy,  by  means  of  which  they  hope  to  arrive  at 
the  hegemony  of  the  world  by  establishing  some 
sort  of  despotic  rule. 

The  “Protocols  of  the  Elders  of  Zion,”  an  edi¬ 
tion  of  which  has  been  published  in  England,  have 
aroused  tremendous  interest  and  a  storm  of  protest. 
It  will  be  noticed  by  the  reader  that  the  editors 
of  the  volume  have  taken  particular  care  not  to 
assume  the  authenticity  of  these  protocols.  They 
may  or  may  not  be  genuine.  Their  present  im¬ 
portance  lies  in  the  fact  that,  while  the  book  which 
contains  them  was  published  in  1905,  the  Jewish 
Bolsheviks  are  today  carrying  out  almost  to  the 
letter  the  programme  outlined  in  the  protocols. 

I  have  said  that  this  secret  revolutionary  move- 


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IX 


ment  seems  to  have  been  engineered  chiefly  by 
Jews.  It  is  about  time  that  somebody  spoke  out 
frankly  on  this  subject.  I  myself  have  several 
Jew  friends.  One  of  them  I  shall  always  remember 
with  gratitude,  for  he  would  give  me  no  peace  in 
the  years  before  the  war  until  he  had  convinced  me 
of  the  German  danger.  At  his  own  expense  he 
despatched  a  man  to  visit  the  various  dockyards 
of  Germany  and  the  information  thus  obtained 
was  found  extremely  useful.  Now  this  man  is  as 
good  a  patriot  as  I  am,  but  I  say  that  there  are 
certain  bad  Jews  who  have  conspired  and  are  con¬ 
spiring  against  stable  government ;  I  point  out  that 
over  80  per  cent,  of  the  present  Bolshevik  Govern¬ 
ment  are  Jews,  and  that  the  Bolshevik  movement 
outside  Russia  is  chiefly  directed  by  Jews. 

If  I  cast  doubt  upon  the  political  integrity  of 
any  Jew,  or  even  if  I  disagree  with  his  policy,  I  am 
dubbed  an  anti-Semite.  This  is  not  just.  I  accuse 
the  Jews  themselves  of  creating  anti-Semitism  and 
I  will  proceed  to  give  my  reasons. 

The  Jews  are  justly  proud  of  their  race,  which, 
in  spite  of  every  sort  of  difficulty,  has  not  only 
persisted  throughout  the  ages,  but  has  achieved  a 
position  of  great  power  and  influence  in  nearly 
every  civilized  country.  Persecution  and  outside 


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pressure  have  taught  them  to  stand  together,  and 
the  tradition  of  unity  is  as  strong,  if  not  stronger, 
today.  They  may  quarrel  among  themselves,  but 
they  unite  instantly  and  almost  unconsciously 
against  any  criticism  from  outside.  The  result  is 
that  a  critic  of  a  prominent  individual  Jew  or  of  a 
particular  Jewish  policy,  who  begins  with  no  sort 
of  prejudice  against  Jewry,  finds  arrayed  against 
him  the  serried  and  united  ranks  of  Jewry.  It  is  no 
use  his  declaring  that  his  objections  are  not  to 
Jewry,  but  to  a  particular  Jew  or  a  particular 
Jewish  policy.  He  is  dubbed  an  anti-Semite,  with 
a  consequence  that  he  has  to  accept  the  epithet 
and,  in  some  cases,  on  the  principle  of  the  dog  with 
the  bad  name,  promptly  proceeds  to  justify  it. 

I  will  give  a  concrete  instance  of  this.  A  few 
months  ago,  as  a  result  of  the  Peace  Conference, 
Great  Britain  accepted  a  mandate  for  Palestine, 
and,  true  to  her  word,  proceeded  to  carry  out  her 
promise  to  provide  a  home  for  Jews  in  that  country. 
At  the  present  moment  the  population  of  Palestine 
consists  of  80  per  cent.  Arabs  and  20  per  cent. 
Christians,  Jews,  and  other  religions.  The  Arabs 
are  in  a  highly  excited  state  of  mind,  because  they 
know  of  the  intention  of  the  British  Government 
to  afford  J ews  a  home  in  Palestine.  N aturally  they 


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xi 


are  asking  each  other  what  is  to  become  of  them 
if  the  Jews  come  into  their  country  in  great  num¬ 
bers.  They  are  not  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  there 
has  been  started  a  great  Jewish  fund  of  £25,000,000 
to  aid  the  immigration  of  Jews  into  their  country. 
The  situation  is  a  highly  delicate  one.  On  the 
one  hand  is  the  declared  British  policy,  on  the 
other  the  Arab  inhabitants,  fearful  about  their 
fate.  To  deal  with  such  a  critical  state  of  things 
tact  and,  above  all,  impartiality  was  required. 
The  British  Government  for  some  extraordinary 
reason  appointed  Sir  Herbert  Samuel,  a  Jew,  to  be 
High  Commissioner  for  Palestine.  In  the  opinion 
of  the  Morning  Post  it  was  a  dangerous  and  an 
improper  appointment.  Were  Sir  Herbert  Samuel 
the  greatest  of  men  and  a  very  Solomon  for  wisdom, 
the  appointment  would  still  be  a  gross  mistake, 
for  even  the  loftiest  motives  and  the  most  impar¬ 
tial  application  of  justice  were  bound  to  be  mis¬ 
understood.  I  have  never  yet  met  in  private 
conversation  a  Jew  or  a  Christian  who  defended 
the  appointment.  Yet  when  the  Morning  Post 
protested  against  it,  the  Jewish  papers  came  out 
with  bitter  attacks,  and  with  the  usual  accusations 
of  anti-Semitism.  Cannot  the  good  Jews  see  that 
this  is  a  mistaken  policy?  It  creates,  as  I  said 


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before,  anti-Semitism.  The  objection  to  Sir 
Herbert  Samuel’s  appointment  was  justified  on 
every  count.  If  the  British  Government  had 
proposed  Sir  Edward  Carson  as  Viceroy  of  Ireland, 
that  step  would  be  exactly  on  all  fours  with  the 
choice  of  a  Jew  as  High  Commissioner  of  Palestine. 
Surely  criticism  of  such  an  obviously  unwise  de¬ 
cision  might  have  passed  without  arousing  the 
stupid  cry  of  anti-Semitism. 

The  question  which  every  reader  of  this  book 
will  want  to  have  answered  is  whether  there  is  a 
Jewish  Peril  and,  if  so,  what  are  its  ramifications. 
That  there  is  a  Jewish  Peril  I  have  no  sort  of 
doubt,  but  we  must  guard  ourselves  against  gen¬ 
eralizations.  It  is  easy  to  prove  that  a  certain 
section  of  the  Jews  in  the  world  are  engaged  in  a 
mighty  attempt  to  destroy  the  established  rule  in 
many  countries  and  to  bring  this  world  into  com¬ 
munistic  brotherhood.  The  thing  is  taking  place 
before  our  eyes.  But  it  would  be  downright 
wicked  to  ascribe  to  Jewry  as  a  whole  this  mad 
and  dangerous  policy.  In  that  direction  lies  the 
danger,  the  hideous  danger  of  a  violent  and  indis¬ 
criminate  anti-Semitism.  It  must  be  averted  by 
the  Jews  themselves.  The  honest,  patriotic  Jews 
must  come  forward  and  denounce  and  no  longer 


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•  •  • 
Xlll 

defend  the  revolutionaries  of  their  race.  They 
should  refuse  to  approve  of  any  policy  which  tends 
to  undermine  the  pillars  of  civilized  society,  for 
the  time  has  come  when  there  can  be  no  sitting  on 
the  fence ;  those  who  are  not  with  us  are  against  us. 

The  pages  of  this  book  will  tell  the  tale  of  this 
conspiracy  against  civilization — for  that  is  really 
what  it  amounts  to.  Perhaps  I  may  be  excused 
if  I  give  a  brief  summary  of  the  circumstances  and 
the  deductions  irresistibly  proceeding  from  them 
which  brought  one  to  the  conclusion  that  the  causes 
of  the  present  world’s  unrest  were  not  fortuitous 
but  the  result  of  a  definite  plan.  When  the  war 
broke  out,  it  seemed,  and  I  believe  it  was,  a  simple, 
plain,  straightforward  struggle  between  a  people 
whose  pride  in  their  warlike  achievements  had 
forced  them  along  the  direction  of  a  world  he¬ 
gemony  and  the  countries  who  refused  to  accept  it. 
During  the  war  it  was  impossible  to  shut  one’s 
eyes  to  the  fact  that  a  certain  section  of  the  Jews 
did  not  desire  to  see  Germany  vanquished.  The 
“peace  without  victory”  suggestion  had  many 
supporters  in  international  circles  where  Jews  had 
influence.  Again,  I  must  warn  the  reader  that  he 
must  not  accept  this  statement  as  a  suggestion 
that  Jewry  throughout  the  war  was  pro-German. 


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But  it  is  true  that  there  was  observable  in  certain 
Jewish  circles  a  tenderness  for  Germany  which  we 
could  not  understand.  Then  came  the  Peace 
Conference  in  Paris,  where  this  tenderness  for 
Germany  became  more  and  more  marked.  The 
theory  which  prevailed  at  the  Armistice  that  Ger¬ 
many  had  offended  against  humanity  and  there¬ 
fore  had  to  be  punished,  just  as  a  man  is  hanged 
for  murder,  was  displaced  gradually  by  sugges¬ 
tions  that  leniency  was  the  best  policy.  All  that 
the  ordinary  man  could  make  of  it  all  was  that 
Germany  was  getting  off  remarkably  lightly. 

Later  on  at  the  Conference  we  come  to  a  phase 
in  the  proceeding  where  it  is  possible  to  say  that 
Jewish  influence  did  materially  affect  the  policy 
of  the  Allies.  I  refer  to  Poland,  and  I  do  not  make 
this  assertion  at  random,  but  I  base  it  on  the 
speeches  and  statements  of  Jews  themselves  or 
Jewish  newspapers. 

The  policy  of  the  Allied  and  Associated  Powers 
was  avowedly  the  creation  of  a  strong  Poland.  No 
country  can  be  strong  in  these  days  of  commerce 
and  industry  unless  it  has  an  outlet  on  the  sea 
Therefore,  it  was  obvious  from  the  first  that  Dant- 
zig  must  be  part  of  the  newly  constituted  Poland. 
Again,  no  country  can  hope  to  remain  strong  unless 


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it  has  full  powers  of  government  over  all  its  in¬ 
habitants  within  its  boundaries.  From  the  very 
outset  it  was  obvious  that  there  was  going  to  be  a 
desperate  struggle  in  Paris  to  defeat  all  attempts 
to  create  a  strong  Poland.  The  Jews  openly  threw 
their  influence  on  the  anti-Polish  side.  The  Jewish 
Delegation  sat  throughout  the  Conference  and 
strained  every  nerve  to  deny  Dantzig  to  the  Poles 
and  to  create  special  privileges  for  the  Jews  in 
Poland.  In  this  matter  Jewish  policy  was  in  op¬ 
position  to  British  policy.  Our  Foreign  Office, 
which  has  been  subjected  to  a  most  deliberate  and 
subtle  campaign  of  calumny,  declared  in  Paris 
that  Dantzig  was  the  test  of  our  policy,  and  that  a 
free  and  strong  Polish  Government  was  essential 
in  British  interests.  Here  our  interests  and  Jewish 
interests  were  at  variance.  We  are  entitled  to  ask 
what  was  the  attitude  of  British  Jews  at  this  crisis. 
Were  they  British  first  and  Jews  afterwards,  or 
Jews  first — British  afterwards?  Is  it  a  mere 
accident  that  at  the  moment  I  write  the  whole 
force  of  Bolshevism  in  this  country  is  being  or¬ 
ganized  to  force  our  Government  to  allow  Russia 
to  occupy  Warsaw? 

All  this  time  the  Jewish  Junta  in  Russia  was 
working  with  feverish  activity  to  extend  its  loath- 


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some  propaganda  in  other  countries.  With  the 
Armistice  came  two  Bolshevist  attempts  in  our 
country.  Glasgow  and  Belfast  tried  to  put  into 
practice  here  the  theories  of  Bolshevism.  These 
attempts  were  dead  failures,  and  it  was  obvious 
that  Sovietism  would  not  be  carried  by  a  coup  de 
main  in  this  country.  So  our  enemies  and  the 
enemies  of  civilization,  the  Jew  Bolsheviks,  de¬ 
termined  upon  another  plan.  There  was  nothing 
secret  in  this.  The  substitution  of  a  slower  system 
of  undermining  civilization  in  this  country  was  an¬ 
nounced  from  the  housetops,  so  to  speak.  Here 
are  the  Jew-Bolsheviks’  orders  to  their  sym¬ 
pathizers  in  this  country : 

“If  such  elements  (Bolsheviks  and  Spar- 
tacists)  increase  in  numbers  and  strength, 
everything  may  get  changed.  At  first  it  is 
necessary:  (i)  The  centre  of  gravity  of  the 
struggle  must  be  outside  of  Parliaments  (strikes, 
revolts,  insurrections,  etc.);  (2)  the  struggle 
inside  the  Parliaments  must  be  closely  connected 
with  the  struggle  outside;  (3)  the  representa¬ 
tives  must  take  part  in  general  organization 
work;  (4)  the  representatives  must  act  by 
directions  of  the  Central  Committee  and  be 
responsible  to  it;  (5)  they  must  not  conform  to 
the  Parliamentary  manners  and  customs. 


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“We  have  to  state  again  that  the  most  vital 
part  of  the  struggle  must  be  outside  of  Parlia¬ 
ment — on  the  street.  It  is  clear  that  the  most 
effective  weapons  of  the  workers  against  Capital¬ 
ism  are :  The  strike,  the  revolt,  armed  insurrec¬ 
tion.  Comrades  have  to  keep  in  mind  the  follow¬ 
ing:  Organization  of  the  Party,  instalment  of 
the  Party  groups  in  the  Trade  Unions,  leader¬ 
ship  of  the  masses,  etc.  Parliamentary  activities 
and  participation  in  elections  must  be  used  only 
as  a  secondary  measure — no  more.”  (Call, 
April  22,  1920.) 

It  required  no  very  intelligent  reading  of  events 
to  guess  at  such  a  plot  without  this  clear  and 
precise  declaration  of  policy.  The  disastrous  re¬ 
sults  were  quite  plain  and  obvious,  and  a  definite 
plan  was  revealed  to  the  most  careless  of  observers. 
From  the  day  of  the  Armistice  until  today  not  a 
single  week  has  passed  without  a  strike.  Industry 
is  thoroughly  unsettled  and  the  future  is  dark 
indeed.  The  aim  of  these  wreckers  is  to  produce 
by  the  next  winter  such  general  unemployment  as 
to  ensure  a  discontented  population  on  which  to 
work.  It  is  a  diabolical  plan,  but,  from  their  point 
of  view,  it  is  by  no  means  a  difficult  one  to  achieve. 
The  exploitation  of  the  people  has  been  brought  to 
a  fine  art.  Every  one  of  these  men  is  an  advocate 


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of  despotic  government,  but  they  work  under  the 
flag  of  extreme  democracy,  anarchy,  or  commun¬ 
ism.  Posing  as  the  friends  of  the  working  classes, 
they  impose  upon  them  with  an  ease  which  is 
disturbing.  The  British  working  man  is  one  of 
the  most  loyal  creatures  alive,  and  perhaps  the 
most  credulous.  He  will  give  generous  support 
to  those  who  can  persuade  him  that  they  are 
concerned  only  for  his  welfare.  He  gets  daily 
and  weekly  evidence  of  the  success  of  their  en¬ 
deavours.  Wages  are  increased,  and  with  each 
increase  the  working  man  rubs  his  hands  with 
satisfaction,  and  blesses  the  people  who  have 
wrung  it  out  of  the  hated  capitalist.  He  does 
not  see  that,  without  increased  production,  in¬ 
creased  wages  will  kill  the  industry  from  which 
he  draws  his  wages.  The  Jew-Bolshevik  policy 
is  to  kill  that  industry,  so  that  unemployment, 
want,  and  discontent  will  ensue.  Read  the 
old  revolutionary  maxim,  on  which  they  act 
today : 

“Want  and  opinion  are  the  two  agents  which 
make  all  men  act.  Cause  the  want,  govern 
opinions,  and  you  will  overturn  all  the  existing 
systems,  however  well  constituted  they  may 

appear.” 


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Let  us  see  to  it  that  here  in  this  country  they 
shall  not  have  success.  Yet  we  shall  do  well  to 
bear  in  mind  Karl  Marx’s  declaration  of  policy  in 
regard  to  this  country,  as  quoted  by  Mrs.  Webster. 
In  1870  he  sent  the  following  message  to  the  In¬ 
ternationale  at  Geneva: 

1.  England  is  the  only  country  in  which  a  real 
Socialistic  revolution  can  he  made . 

2.  The  English  people  cannot  make  this  revo¬ 
lution, 

3.  Foreigners  must  make  it  for  them . 

4.  The  foreign  members ,  therefore ,  must  retain 
their  seats  at  the  London  hoard . 

5.  The  point  to  strike  at  first  is  Ireland ,  and  in 
Ireland  they  are  ready  to  begin  their  work . 

Ten  years  ago  this  would  have  been  regarded 
as  midsummer  madness.  Today  the  case  of 
Ireland  gives  to  this  message  the  aspect  of  a 
prophecy  almost  fulfilled.  We  should  do  well, 
however,  to  keep  our  eyes  on  conditions  in  Eng¬ 
land,  Scotland,  and  Wales.  The  destruction  of  our 
industries  is  going  on  apace.  Our  industrial  exist¬ 
ence  is  dependent  upon  having  a  large  field  of 
exportation.  We  least  of  all  nations  can  continue 
to  exist  by  “taking  in  each  other’s  washing.”.  At 
the  present  moment  we  are  filling  up  the  huge 


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void  in  our  home  market  caused  by  the  war.  These 
needs  will  soon  be  met,  and  we  shall  then  have  to 
seek  markets  for  our  goods  in  South  America, 
some  parts  of  Europe,  the  Far  East,  and  in  our  own 
Dominions.  In  these  markets,  which  are  neutral, 
we  shall  find  rivals  and  shall  have  to  expect  severe 
competition.  Mr.  Smillie  and  his  miners’  execu¬ 
tive  have  increased  the  price  of  everything  into 
which  coal  enters  as  a  part  of  its  manufacture,  so 
that  our  prices  are  enhanced  and  foreign  mer¬ 
chants  will  be  driven  to  cheaper  markets  at  our 
expense.  As  it  is,  our  manufacturers  cannot  give 
firm  quotations.  They  find  themselves  forced  by 
the  disturbed  industrial  position  in  this  country 
to  insert  saving  clauses  in  their  contracts.  Just 
at  the  present  moment,  with  such  leeway  to  make 
good,  foreign  and  neutral  buyers  are  willing  to 
put  up  with  the  inconveniences  of  varying  prices, 
but  this  cannot  last  long.  Those  of  our  manufac¬ 
turers  who  have  a  long  view  are  most  pessimistic, 
and  there  are  signs  of  increasing  unemployment  in 
the  near  future. 

This  unemployment — the  constant  dread  of  the 
working  man — is, in  my  opinion,  deliberately  created 
by  the  hotheads  of  Labour.  When  the  war  ended, 
even  with  the  high  prices  of  labour,  a  prolonged 


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period  of  industrial  progress  and  prosperity  was  in 
sight.  Labour  could  have,  and  no  doubt  would 
have,  secured  its  fair  share,  but  Labour  is  losing 
the  opportunity,  and  distress,  poverty,  and  un¬ 
employment  threaten  us.  The  moderate  Labour 
leader  knows  the  danger,  and  has  fought  stoutly 
for  his  men.  But  a  wave  of  mad  communism — the 
work  of  the  Jew-Bolsheviks — has  caught  up  a 
powerful  section  of  Labour,  and  there  is  not  even 
any  pretence  now  of  safeguarding  the  interests  of 
the  working  man.  It  is  all  a  political  game — 
nationalization,  direct  action,  and  open  revolution. 
What  do  they  want,  these  people?  A  new  heaven 
and  a  new  earth,  fashioned  after  their  ideals? 
They  seek  the  “proletarian  dictatorship” — what¬ 
ever  that  may  mean.  Governments  and  theories 
of  government  must  always  be  judged  by  their 
result.  If  the  Jew-Bolsheviks  had  produced  a 
system  by  which  the  governed  were  happier,  freer, 
and  more  prosperous  than  the  peoples  under  other 
systems,  there  would  be  every  excuse  for  any 
attempt  to  imitate  them.  But  in  Russia  trades 
unionism  has  been  stamped  out,  religion  mocked, 
liberty  denied,  and  the  will  of  the  autocracy  of  the 
Soviets  impressed  on  everybody.  It  is  a  system  of 
rule  by  terror.  Whoever  holds  an  opinion  contrary 


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to  the  Soviet  Government  is  executed  or  im¬ 
prisoned.  Disease  is  rampant,  and  from  all 
accounts  which  we  get  from  Russia,  never  was 
any  country  in  such  a  desperately  unhappy  state. 
And  this  is  what  our  extremists  want  for  us? 

But  is  it?  Communism,  anarchy,  and  the 
4 ‘dictatorship  of  the  people”  are  words  and  con¬ 
vey  nothing  to  the  student  of  history  and  politics. 
They  are  mere  terms  used  to  describe  phrases  of 
political  or  popular  movements.  When  they  are 
achieved,  there  still  remains  a  permanent  system  of 
government  to  devise.  We  must  credit  the  leaders 
of  Bolshevism  with  the  power  of  seeing  further  than 
their  noses,  as  the  common  phrase  goes.  Indeed, 
some  of  them  are  gifted  with  a  very  high  intelli¬ 
gence,  though  they  seem  to  possess  a  low  moral 
standard.  They  have  worked  it  out  to  the  nth. 
degree.  Communism  cannot  in  the  nature  of 
things  be  the  final  end  of  their  hopes  and  dreams. 
They  know  better  perhaps  than  the  highest  of 
high  old  Tories  that  it  is  not,  and  can  never  be, 
a  permanent  system  of  government.  Indeed,  in 
Russia,  they  have  by  their  acts  acknowledged  that 
this  is  so.  As  for  anarchy,  it  used  to  be  a  favourite 
subject  among  the  old  Russian  Nihilists,  but  it 
has  disappeared  from  all  political  programmes  of 


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xxm 


the  Reds,  and  does  not  exist  now,  even  as  a  politi¬ 
cal  dream.  There  remains  the  “dictatorship  of 
the  peolpe.”  Luckily  for  us,  it  is  not  necessary 
to  ponder  deeply  over  the  meaning  of  this.  Being 
in  actual  and  active  existence  in  Moscow,  we  can 
see  exactly  what  it  means,  how  it  works,  and  the 
main  results.  This  system  of  government,  so 
alluring  to  the  working  man,  and  so  utterly  ini¬ 
mical  to  his  interests,  is  run  by  a  few  men  who  have 
usurped  authority  and  have  relegated  the  working 
classes  to  a  position  of  serfdom,  and  are  now  work¬ 
ing  with  all  seriousness  for  the  hegemony  of  the 
world.  And  80  per  cent,  of  them  are  Jews. 

It  would  be  unfair  and  un-English  to  argue 
from  this  that  all  Jews  are  Bolsheviks.  But  we 
may  fairly  say  that  the  time  has  come  when  every 
country  in  the  world  is  entitled  to  ask  its  Jews 
what  policy  they  intend  to  pursue  towards  this 
new  and  alarming  danger.  Here  is  a  huge  country, 
of  enormous  resources  and  illimitable  wealth,  being 
run  by  a  company  of  Jews  on  a  system  which  can 
best  be  described  as  the  denial  of  democracy.  It 
aims  at  spreading  this  abominable  theory  through¬ 
out  the  world.  This  is  the  boast  of  their  own  men, 
not  our  mere  statement.  In  every  country  are  to 
be  found  today  representatives  of  Sovietism,  Jew 


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and  Gentile,  working  feverishly  and  with  excel¬ 
lent  organization.  In  England  we  are  seeing  daily 
the  results  of  the  propaganda.  Bolshevists  here 
openly  declare  their  intentions  to  have  Soviet 
government,  and  they  possess  a  paper,  the  Daily 
Herald ,  which  is  frankly  and  utterly  Bolshevist. 
The  political  Jew,  who  is  working  for  his  nation 
and  not  for  his  religion,  is  active.  He  is  everywhere 
working  with  extraordinary  activity  towards  the 
furtherance  of  Bolshevist  plans.  Is  it  not  time  to 
ask  those  of  our  Jewish  fellow  citizens  who  do  not 
share  the  views  of  their  fellows  to  speak  out 
openly  and  fearlessly? 

The  attitude  of  the  English  Jews  is  one  of  sur¬ 
prise  that  their  religion  should  subject  them  to  sus¬ 
picion  or  differential  treatment  of  any  kind.  They 
say  in  effect,  “Why  are  we  treated  differently  from 
Roman  Catholics,  Wesleyans,  Methodists,  Church 
of  England,  or  any  other  religious  community?” 
Recently  in  the  Jewish  Guardian  (March  26,  1920) 
the  attitude  of  English  Jewry  was  thus  described. 

“Judaism  is  a  religion,  not  a  nation.  It  was 
to  Jews  as  members  of  a  religious  body  that 
national  rights  have  been  vindicated  at  the 
Peace  Conference;  and  it  is  by  Jews  as  members 
of  a  religious  body  that  Judaism  will  be  guarded.” 


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These  are  admirable  sentiments,  most  of  which 
every  tolerant  and  generous  Englishman  will 
endorse.  But  perhaps  he  might  ask  the  meaning 
of  the  phrase:  “It  was  to  Jews  as  members  of  a 
religious  body  that  national  rights  have  been 
vindicated  at  the  Peace  Conference.”  We  pre¬ 
sume  that  the  writer  intended  to  convey  the  idea 
that  the  Peace  Conference  insisted  on  the  Jews  of 
Roumania  and  Poland  having  special  rights,  be¬ 
cause  they  were  a  religious  community  and  not 
because  they  were  a  separate  national  entity.  But 
later  on  in  the  same  article  we  have  a  remarkable 
passage  which  tends  to  prove  that  there  are  a  large 
number  of  Jews  who  desire  a  distinct  nationality 
for  themselves,  apart  altogether  from  their  religion. 

“Now,  is  this  the  policy  of  the  Zionists,  not 
to  deprive  Western  Jews  of  nationality,  but  to 
acquire  for  such  Eastern  Jews  as  want  it  the 
opportunity  of  developing  a  civic  sentiment, 
repressed  and  held  in  check  where  they  dwell? 
If  so,  we  would  ask  them  four  questions:  (i) 
How  far  is  this  policy  modified  by  the  Minority 
Treaties  enacted  and  to  be  enacted,  and  by  the 
just  desire  to  give  them  a  fair  trial?  (2)  How 
do  the  Zionist  leaders  propose  to  inform  their 
followers  and  others  that  Jewish  ‘Nationalism' 
outside  Palestine  is  a  mistaken  term,  without 


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foothold  in  the  present,  or  justification  in  the 
past,  or  security  in  the  future?  (3)  Are  they 
willing  that  Palestinians  of  other  races  and 
other  creeds  should  share  with  Jews  the  civic 
sense  of  Palestine?  And  (4)  how  do  they  pro¬ 
pose  to  conciliate  the  help  and  co-operation  of  the 
many  Jews,  in  whose  behalf  we  are  writing,  who, 
untouched,  as  they  are,  by  political  Zionism,  are 
willing,  even  anxious,  to  assist  in  the  restoration 
of  Palestine?” 

It  is  obvious,  then,  that  there  is  a  large  and 
powerful  section  of  Jews  who  cling  to  their  na¬ 
tionality  as  much  as  they  do  to  their  religion. 
Indeed,  the  whole  controversy  in  this  matter  boils 
down  to  the  answer  to  the  question,  “Are  Jews 
working  as  a  distinct  race  or  merely  as  members  of 
a  distinct  religion?  ” 

Let  us  try  to  seek  the  answer  to  this  question 
from  the  Jews  themselves.  The  Jewish  Guardian 
is  out  and  away  the  ablest  Jewish  paper  published 
in  England.  We  must  bear  testimony  to  its  fair¬ 
ness,  broad-mindedness,  and  general  excellence. 
It  must  be  remembered  that  it  was  founded  only 
last  year  as  a  protest  against  the  curious  attitude 
of  the  other  Jewish  papers.  In  effect  it  is  anti- 
Zionist  and  anti-revolutionary.  It  stands  in  rare 


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contrast  to  the  narrowness  and  bitterness  of  its 
Jewish  rivals.  Also  the  Guardian  commands  the 
services  of  some  of  the  best  pens  in  British  Jewry. 
In  a  leading  article  published  August  6th  of  this 
year  it  refers  to  the  question  of  nationality. 

“We  have  never  disguised  our  conviction, 
unpopular  in  places  though  it  has  been,  that 
Zionism  (or,  more  precisely,  Zionist  ‘hotheads/ 
as  Lord  Curzon  recently  described  them) 
brought  grist  to  the  mill  of  those  anti-Semites 
who  pretend  that  Jews  are  duo-national.  The 
confusion  between  the  philosophic  ‘nationalism/ 
which  Mr.  Leon  Simon  has  expounded  in  a 
recent  book,  and  the  common  nationality  of 
the  subjects  of  one  ruler  such  as  King  George, 
has  been  as  unfortunate  as  it  is  illogical.  We 
still  hold  that  wiser  counsels  might  have  avoided 
it,  and  that  Jewish  leaders,  jealous  for  the  good 
name  of  other  adherents  to  Judaism  than  the 
Zionists,  should  always  have  been  careful  to  dis¬ 
tinguish  between  the  two  uses  of  one  word.” 

Here  we  see  the  recognition  of  the  accusation 
that  the  Jews  are  a  nation  and  the  attempt  to  meet 
it  by  Mr.  Leon  Simon.  The  Jewish  Guardian  is 
certainly  “up  against”  the  same  accusation,  and 
very  gallantly,  and  we  believe  sincerely,  tries  to 
prove  that  Judaism  is  a  religion  pure  and  simple. 


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But  facts  are  against  it,  and  alas!  facts  from  its 
own  pages. 

Some  time  in  June,  the  Maccabeans  honoured 
Mr.  Lucien  Wolf  at  the  Holbom  Restaurant  by 
inviting  him  to  a  banquet.  The  event  is  described 
in  the  Jewish  Guardian  of  June  nth.  Here  is  the 
first  sentence : 

“Honour  to  whom  honour  is  due,  and  all 
honour  to  Mr.  Lucien  Wolf,  the  man  who  fought 
for  Jewish  rights  at  Versailles  last  year.” 

Now  what  precisely  do  the  words  “Jewish 
rights”  mean?  If  Judaism  is  a  religion  was  there 
any  need  to  fight  for  its  rights,  since  no  country  in 
the  world  offers  any  obstacle  to  the  exercise  of  his 
religion  by  any  one  of  its  nationals?  So  we  con¬ 
clude  that  the  “rights”  were  political  and  we  see 
the  Jewish  nation  at  work.  If  Mr.  Lucien  Wolf 
receives  the  thanks  of  Jewry  for  fighting  for  Jewish 
rights  at  Versailles,  then  Sir  Herbert  Samuel  will, 
no  doubt,  do  his  best  to  deserve  the  same  thanks 
for  his  fight  for  Jewish  rights  in  Palestine. 

Later  on  in  the  same  account  we  come  across 
another  significant  passage.  Here  it  is : 

“The  second  (message)  was  a  letter  from  Mr. 
Israel  Zangwill,  pungent  and  self-reminiscent, 


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XXIX 


but  with  truth  at  the  bottom  of  it,  as  usual. 
‘The  Minority  Treaties  were  the  touchstone  of 
the  League  of  Nations,  that  essentially  Jewish 
aspiration .  And  the  man  behind  the  Minority 
Treaties  was  Lucien  Wolf.’” 

I  have  italicized  the  description  of  the  League 
of  Nations  as  being  “that  essentially  Jewish  as¬ 
piration.”  Was  the  establishment  of  the  League 
of  Nations  a  religious  or  a  political  question? 
Surely,  by  no  stretch  of  imagination  or  sophistry, 
can  the  League  of  Nations  be  regarded  as  a  re¬ 
ligious  matter.  It  was  political,  and  again  we  see 
the  Jewish  nation  at  work. 

In  returning  thanks  for  the  many  kind  things 
said  of  him  at  the  banquet,  Mr.  Lucien  Wolf’s 
reply  is  thus  described : 


“Then  came  the  sharing  of  the  praise,  first 
to  the  Alliance  Israelite ,  then  to  the  Americans, 
then  to  the  statesmanship  and  goodwill  of  the 
Conference  itself.  The  Anglo- Jewish  members 
of  the  Delegation  might  claim  that  the  first 
detailed  plan  of  the  Minority  Treaties  was  their 
own.  They  discussed  it  with  members  of  the 
Commission  on  New  States,  hut  the  governing 
principle  had  first  been  accepted  from  them  (my 


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italics)  by  the  Allied  and  Associated  Powers  and 
by  the  League  of  Nations.  Though  in  the  ex¬ 
citement  of  hearing  the  Main  Treaties  all  else 
might  be  well  lost  for  the  moment,  he  would 
remind  them  that  the  principle  laid  down  in 
the  preamble  to  the  Labour  Convention,  which 
secured  the  rights  of  the  working  classes  and 
guaranteed  them  the  protection  of  the  League 
of  Nations,  recognized  that  the  rights  of  mi¬ 
nority  populations  were  on  exactly  the  same 
plane.” 

Here  is  the  political  Jew  at  work  for  the  Jewish 
nation .  There  is  nothing  deserving  of  blame  in 
this.  If  political  and  intensely  national  Jews  care 
to  combine  to  secure  privileges  and  rights  for  their 
co-nationals  throughout  Europe,  they  deserve  well 
of  Jewry,  but  the  Jewish  Guardian  must  not  talk 
nonsense  of  Judaism  being  only  a  religion.  It  may 
be  that,  but  in  addition  it  is  a  strong,  active  polit¬ 
ical  force,  pulling  strings  in  every  country  for  the 
good  of  Jewry. 

It  is  here  we  join  issue  with  those  Jews  who  do 
not  concern  themselves  with  the  political  and 
national  aims  and  aspirations  of  their  co-religion¬ 
ists.  We  want  to  know  how  we  are  to  distinguish 
between  the  good  citizen  Jew  and  the  politically 


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minded  Jew  who  works  for  Jewry,  right  or  wrong. 
In  this  country  there  are  many  Jews  holding 
important  political  offices.  We  want  to  know  for 
certain  that  if  at  any  time  British  interests  and 
Jewish  interests  clash  he  will  be  British  first  and 
Jewish  afterwards.  How  are  we  to  know  this? 
I  have  shown  and  this  book  will  show  much  more 
amply  the  great  political  activity  of  the  Jews. 
Cannot  the  good  Jews  see  that  it  is  difficult  for  us 
to  tolerate  this  uncertainty,  especially  with  the 
world  in  its  present  state  of  unrest?  We  are 
gradually  being  forced  to  deny  to  Jews  political 
office,  unless  we  can  be  quite  sure  that  it  will  be 
exercised  on  behalf  of  our  country  and  Empire 
and  not  on  behalf  of  the  Jewish  race  throughout 
the  world.  We  have  seen  at  the  Peace  Conference 
the  extraordinary  and  most  successful  workings 
of  the  Jews  among  the  delegates,  and  this  book 
will  prove  that  their  efforts  were  almost  entirely 
directed  towards  safeguarding  purely  Jewish  in¬ 
terests.  It  is  impossible  not  to  be  amused  at  the 
assertion  of  Mr.  Lucien  Wolf  that  the  principle 
laid  down  in  the  preamble  to  the  Labour  Conven¬ 
tion,  which  secured  the  rights  of  the  working  classes 
and  guaranteed  them  the  protection  of  the  League 
of  Nations,  recognized  that  the  rights  of  minority 


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populations  were  on  exactly  the  same  plane. 
Taken  to  pieces  this  means  that  in  order  to  secure 
privilege  for  the  minorities  (i.e.,  the  Jews)  it  was 
found  best  to  camouflage  this  step  under  the  guise 
of  “securing  the  rights  of  the  working  classes’ ’ 
and  guaranteeing  them  “the  protection  of  the 
League  of  Nations” — that  essentially  Jewish 
aspiration.  Fancy  our  working  men  needing  the 
protection  of  the  League  of  Nations,  or  the  work¬ 
ing  classes  in  any  other  country ! 

This  is  the  Jewish  Peril,  that  a  great  number 
of  Jews,  owning  various  nationalities  and  in  some 
cases  rising  to  great  political  power,  are  working 
for  the  rights  of  the  Jewish  nation.  If  there  should 
come  occasions  to  such  a  Jew  when  the  safety, 
honour,  and  welfare  of  the  country  of  which  he  is 
a  national  are  opposed  to  the  safety,  honour,  and 
welfare  of  the  Jewish  nation,  on  which  side  will  he 
throw  the  weight  of  his  influence  and  power? 
That  uncertainty  is  not  lessened  by  the  spectacle 
of  a  Jew-Bolshevik  Government  or  by  the  remem¬ 
brance  of  Jewish  national  activity  in  Paris  and 
elsewhere.  If  by  giving  expression  to  this  policy 
of  alarm  and  suspicion  that  is  felt  by  many  of  my 
fellow  citizens,  I  am  to  be  dubbed  “anti-Semite” 
by  the  Jewish  Press,  then  I  suppose  I  must  put  up 


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xxxiii 


with  the  epithet.  But  as  long  as  I  see  a  possibility 
of  the  interests  of  this  country  and  Empire  being 
risked  by  uncertain  allegiance,  so  long  will  I  con¬ 
tinue  to  denounce  it. 

H.  A.  Gwynne. 

Morning  Post  Office, 

August,  1920. 


The  Cause  of  World  Unrest 


CHAPTER  I 

In  the  House  of  Commons,  on  November  5,  1919, 
Mr.  Winston  Churchill  gave  a  very  remarkable 
account  of  the  Russian  Revolution.  He  began  by 
quoting  a  passage  from  Ludendorff’s  book  on  the 
war.  It  occurs  in  volume  ii.,  page  509: 

“By  sending  Lenin  to  Russia  [says  Luden- 
dorff],  our  Government  did  moreover  assume  a 
great  responsibility,  but  from  the  military  point 
of  view  his  journey  was  justified.  Russia  had  to 
be  laid  low.  But  our  Government  should  have 
seen  to  it  that  we  were  not  also  involved  in  her 
fall.” 

So  far  Ludendorff.  Let  us  now  see  what  Mr. 
Churchill  has  to  say  upon  the  implications  of  this 
passage : 

“Lenin  was  sent  into  Russia  by  the  Germans 
in  the  same  way  that  you  might  send  a  phial  con- 


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taining  a  culture  of  typhoid  or  of  cholera  to  be 
poured  into  the  water  supply  of  a  great  city,  and  it 
worked  with  amazing  accuracy.  No  sooner  did 
Lenin  arrive  than  he  began  beckoning  a  finger  here 
and  a  finger  there  to  obscure  persons  in  sheltered 
retreats  in  New  York,  in  Glasgow,  in  Berne,  and 
other  countries,  and  he  gathered  together  the 
leading  spirits  of  a  formidable  sect,  the  most  for¬ 
midable  sect  in  the  world ,  of  which  he  was  the  high 
priest  and  chief.  With  these  spirits  around  him  he 
set  to  work  with  demoniacal  ability  to  tear  to 
pieces  every  institution  on  which  the  Russian 
State  depended.  Russia  was  laid  low.  Russia 
had  to  be  laid  low.  She  was  laid  low  in  the  dust. 

“Colonel  Ward — But  she  is  not  dead  yet. 

“Mr.  J.  Jones — Why  did  you  not  declare  war 
on  him? 

“Mr.  Churchill — Her  national  life  was  com¬ 
pletely  ruined;  the  fruits  of  her  sacrifices  were 
thrown  away.  She  was  condemned  to  long  in¬ 
ternal  terrors,  and  menaced  by  famine.  .  .  .  Her 
sufferings  are  more  fearful  than  modern  records 
hold,  and  she  has  been  robbed  of  her  place  among 
the  great  nations  of  the  world.” 

Now  let  us  carefully  consider  this  gloomy,  im¬ 
pressive,  and  almost  terrifying  passage.  What 
does  it  mean?  It  means,  first  of  all,  that  the 
German  Imperial  Government  used  an  organiza- 


THE  CAUSE  OP  WORLD  UNREST  3 

tion — “the  most  formidable  sect  in  the  world” — 
for  the  destruction  of  Russia.  Secondly — as  we 
also  gather  from  Ludendorff — the  German  Gov¬ 
ernment  ran  a  great  risk — “assumed  a  great 
responsibility” — in  letting  loose  this  mysterious 
power.  Thirdly,  Ludendorff  seems  to  suggest 
that  the  German  Government  handled  this  power 
clumsily,  so  that  they  were  also  brought  down  by 
it.  Fourthly — and  here  we  come  to  Mr.  Churchill 
— the  sect  was  not  German  only  or  Russian:  its 
leading  spirits  were  drawn  from  New  York, 
Glasgow,  Berne,  and  other  countries. 

It  was  a  power  outside  Germany,  a  power  out¬ 
side  Russia:  it  was  a  world- wide  power.  And  it 
was  a  power  strong  enough  to  bring  Russia  down, 
and  also,  if  we  are  right  in  our  interpretation  of 
Ludendorff’ s  words,  to  bring  down  the  Imperial 
German  Government  and  the  House  of  Hohen- 
zollern. 

What  was  it? 

Before  attempting  to  answer  this  question, 
let  us  make  another  quotation,  this  time  from  an 
author  long  dead.  The  Abbe  Barruel  wrote  his 
Memoirs  of  Jacobinism  towards  the  end  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  The  English  translation  was 
published  in  1797-1798.  The  Abbe  traced  the 


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origin  of  the  French  Revolution  through  a  bewil¬ 
dering  maze  of  secret  societies,  French  and  Ger¬ 
man,  chiefly  Masonic  or  pseudo-Masonic  in  form, 
and  all  inspired  by  a  common  plan.  He  suggested 
that  the  parent  sect  of  the  Revolution  was  the 
Illuminati  founded  by  the  famous  “Spartacus” 
Weishaupt  in  Bavaria  in  1776,  and  after  describing 
the  sinister  activities  of  this  and  other  organiza¬ 
tions  of  a  similar  kind,  he  warned  his  readers  in 
these  remarkable  words : 

“You  thought  the  Revolution  ended  in  France, 
and  the  Revolution  in  France  was  only  the  first 
attempt  of  the  J acobins.  In  the  desires  of  a  terrible 
and  formidable  sect,  you  have  only  reached  the 
first  stage  of  the  plans  it  has  formed  for  that 
general  Revolution  which  is  to  overthrow  all 
thrones,  all  altars,  annihilate  all  property,  efface 
all  law,  and  end  by  dissolving  all  society.1  * 

Now,  the  Abb6  Barruel’s  book  caused  a  great 
sensation  at  the  time,  and  became  the  centre  of  a 
great  controversy — both  in  Europe  and  America — 
now  almost,  if  not  quite  forgotten.  Among  those 
who  attempted  to  answer  Barruel  was  Jean  Joseph 
Mounier,  famous  in  the  early  stages  of  the  Revolu¬ 
tion  as  President  of  the  National  Assembly. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  5 


Mounier  was  one  of  those  Liberal-Constitution¬ 
alists  who  seem  doomed  to  be  the  dupes  of  the 
Revolutions  over  whose  early  stages  they  preside. 

Mounier  then  wrote  a  reply1  to  Barruel.  In 
this  reply  Mounier  pointed  out  that  the  Illuminati 
had  been  dissolved  in  1787. 

“How,  therefore  [he  asked],  could  it  have  pro¬ 
duced  the  Revolution  of  France  which  began  in 
1789?  True,  we  have  been  assured  that  it  was 
continued  in  more  secret  forms;  but  this  assertion 
is  out  of  all  probability.  .  .  .  They  who  say  the 
order  still  exists  ought  to  give  up  the  attempt  to 
persuade  the  Germans  of  it,  who  are  witnesses  of 
the  conduct  of  those  who  established  it.  .  .  .  If 
we  are  to  believe  the  writings  of  Dr.  Robison  and 
M.  Barruel,  the  systems  of  M.  Weishaupt  were 
diffused  with  the  rapidity  of  the  electric  fluid.” 

Here  surely  is  a  passage  upon  which  Time 
sheds  a  strong  and  dramatic  light. 

In  1801  no  German  believes  that  the  followers  of 
* 1  Spartacus  ’ 1  still  exist  as  a  secret  society.  In  1 9 1 8 
they  come  out  of  their  shadows  and  attempt  a 
Revolution  in  Berlin ! 

In  1801  it  is  absurd  to  suppose  that  a  secret 

*  Influence  of  the  Philosopher s,  Free-Masons,  and  Illuminants  on 
the  Revolution  in  France  (1801). 


6  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


society,  a  “ formidable  sect,”  could  spread  from 
Germany  to  France  “with  the  rapidity  of  the 
electric  fluid.  ”  In  1919  Mr.  Churchill  asserts  that 
Revolution  was  carried  from  Germany  to  Russia 
“in  the  same  way  that  you  might  send  a  phial 
containing  a  culture  of  typhoid.’' 

Barruel  then  is  justified  by  time.  As  we  shall 
presently  show,  he  finds  support  in  the  researches 
of  modern  history.  The  French  Revolution — like 
the  Russian  Revolution — was  actuated  by  a  for¬ 
midable  sect — “the  most  formidable  sect  in  the 
world.” 

The  proofs  of  this  statement  we  must  reserve 
for  a  subsequent  chapter.  In  the  meantime  let  us 
merely  state  the  question  which  these  papers  will 
attempt  to  answer. 

What  is  this  “formidable  sect”  of  which  Bar¬ 
ruel  speaks  in  the  eighteenth  century,  of  which 
Mr.  Churchill  speaks  in  the  twentieth?  Is  it  the 
same  then  as  now?  That  is  a  disturbing  question. 
Upon  the  answer  may  rest  the  safety  of  England — 
of  Christianity — and  of  the  civilization  based  on 
Christianity. 

“The  appalling  thing,”  says  Lord  Acton  in  his 
Essays  on  the  French  Revolution ,  “is  not  the  tumult 
but  the  design.  Through  all  the  fire  and  smoke 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  7 


we  perceive  the  evidence  of  calculating  organiza¬ 
tion.  The  managers  remain  studiously  concealed 
and  masked,  but  there  is  no  doubt  about  their 
presence  from  the  first.” 

What  was  this  calculating  organization?  Lord 
Acton  does  not  answer.  He  was  too  absorbed  in 
his  pre-occupation  of  Constitutionalism — that 
will-o’-the-wisp  which  all  our  Whig  historians  are 
eternally  chasing  through  the  quaking  bogs  and 
the  lurid  shadows  of  those  terrible  times.  Was  it 
by  any  chance  the  same  “formidable  sect”  which 
the  German  Emperor  let  loose  upon  Russia? 

Mrs.  Webster,  in  her  admirable  book  on  the 
French  Revolution,1  suggests  several  answers  to 
this  question.  She  recalls  the  “formidable  sect” 
of  the  Illuminati  of  Bavaria,  founded  by  “Sparta- 
cus”  Weishaupt  in  1776,  and  asks  if  it  can  be 
“mere  coincidence”  that  the  Spartacists  of  modern 
Germany  adopted  the  pseudonym  of  their  fellow- 
countryman  and  predecessor  of  the  eighteenth 
century. 

We  shall  examine  that  theory  later  on. 

Then  Mrs.  Webster  goes  on  to  point  out  that 
the  Internationale,  by  the  admission  of  Prince 
Kropotkin,  had  “a  direct  filiation”  with  the 

1  The  French  Revolution .  By  Nesta  H.  Webster  (1919). 


8  THE  CAUSE  O  7  WORLD  UNREST 


“Enrages”  of  1793  and  the  secret  societies  of 

1795- 

That  also  is  a  question  we  shall  have  to  con¬ 
sider. 

They  are  mentioned  by  Mrs.  Webster  as  an 
afterthought,  suggested  no  doubt  by  the  terrible 
events  which  were  taking  place  when  she  was 
completing  her  book.  The  main  body  of  her  work 
is  occupied  with  tracing  the  Orleanist  conspiracy, 
which  beyond  doubt  had  its  share  in  those  events. 

Now  the  Duke  of  Orleans  was  a  voluptuary 
and  a  coward.  Sober  historians,  after  examining 
his  character,  laugh  at  the  idea  that  he  could  have 

organized  such  a  conspiracy.  Why  then  was  his 

/ 

name — the  name  Philip  Egalite — a  rallying  cry 
of  those  formidable  sects  which  organized  the 
Revolution?  That  is  a  question  which  we  must 
also  hold  in  suspense  for  a  moment. 

Then  Mrs.  Webster  allots  its  due  share  to 
the  Prussian  conspiracy  organized  by  Frederick 
the  Great,  and  continued  by  his  successor,  for  the 
destruction  of  France.  That  Prussia  had  its  share 
in  the  French  Revolution  is  no  longer  in  doubt. 
“Anacharsis”  Clootz,  that  horrible  Prussian; 
Ephraim,  that  horrible  German  Jew,  were  probably 
agents  of  the  House  of  Hohenzollern. 


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Had  they  also  a  “filiation”  with  the  “formid¬ 
able  sect”?  We  shall  see. 

Again,  there  was  the  obscure  conspiracy  to  place 
the  Duke  of  Brunswick  on  the  Throne  of  France. 

There  were  also  English  influences  at  work  in 
the  “formidable  sect.”  English  gold  helped  to 
finance  the  French  Revolution.  That  is  certain. 
But  it  is  also  certain,  as  Mrs.  Webster  shows,  that 
it  was  not  the  gold  of  Pitt,  The  Government  of 
George  III.  had  no  hand  in  the  foul  conspiracy. 
The  aid  was  given  by  certain  “revolutionary 
clubs”  in  England. 

What  interest  had  they  in  the  destruction  of  the 
House  of  Bourbon?  Were  they  also  members  of 
the  “formidable  sect”?  If  they  were — if  Bavar¬ 
ians,  Prussians,  Frenchmen,  and  Englishmen  were 
all  working  in  the  same  conspiracy,  in  the  same 
organization — then  the  “formidable  sect”  could 
not  have  been  French  merely.  It  must  have  been 
International. 

Are  we  to  believe  that  even  in  the  eighteenth 
century  there  was  an  “International”  devoted  to 
the  destruction  of  Church  and  State? 

The  French  Clerical,  the  French  Royalist,  will 
reply  at  once :  Certainly,  there  was  Freemasonry. 

That  is  an  answer  at  which  Englishmen  will  be 


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inclined  to  laugh,  for  no  one  who  knew  anything 
of  them  could  suspect  our  English  Freemasons  of 
any  revolutionary  design.  But  there  is  Free¬ 
masonry  and  Freemasonry.  The  danger  of  the 
Masonic  organization  is  this — that  every  secret 
society  which  aims  at  revolution  finds  in  Free¬ 
masonry  a  disguise  which  it  is  almost  impossible 
to  penetrate.  Freemasons  themselves  admit,  as 
we  shall  see  later  on,  that  the  trowel  has  been  used 
as  a  dagger,  and  that  the  square  has  covered  a 
bomb.  Let  us  quote  from  a  witness  who  upon 
this  point  is  not  likely  to  lie.  Louis  Blanc  was 
himself  a  revolutionary,  and  his  History  of  the 
French  Revolution  is  written  to  glorify  that  event. 
Let  us  see,  then,  what  he  says  on  this  subject. 

After  reminding  his  readers  that  Liberty,  Equal¬ 
ity,  and  Fraternity  are  words  dedicated  to  Free¬ 
masonry  he  continues: 

“As  the  three  grades  of  ordinary  Masonry 
included  a  great  number  of  men  opposed,  by 
position  and  by  principle,  to  every  project  of  social 
subversion,  the  innovators  multiplied  the  degrees 
of  'the  mystic  ladder  to  be  climbed.  They  created 
occult  lodges  reserved  for  ardent  souls  .  .  . 
shadowy  sanctuaries  whose  doors  were  only  open 
to  the  adept  after  a  long  series  of  proofs  calculated 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  n 


to  test  the  progress  of  his  revolutionary  education. 
.  .  .  It  was  to  these  subterranean  schools  that 
Condorcet  alluded  when,  in  his  Histoire  des  Progres 
de  V Esprit  Humain ,  interrupted  by  his  death,  he 
promised  to  tell  what  blows  monarchical  idolatry 
and  superstition  had  received  from  the  secret 
societies,  daughters  of  the  Order  of  the  Templars.” 

This  testimony,  as  we  shall  see,  does  not  stand 
alone.  And  it  has  the  merit  also  of  explaining  a 
good  deal  that  is  otherwise  inexplicable.  For  it  is 
certain  that  in  France  the  Duke  of  Orleans  was 
Grand  Master  both  of  the  Central  Masonic  Lodge, 
the  Grand  Orient,  and  also  of  the  Templars;  that 
Frederick  the  Great  was  Grand  Master  of  a  world¬ 
wide  system  of  Freemasonry,  and  that  the  Duke 
of  Brunswick  was  Grand  Master  of  the  German 
Freemasons. 

Whether  these  principals  were  the  directors  or 
were  the  tools  of  the  “formidable  sect”  is  a  ques¬ 
tion  that  must  also  be  answered. 

But  in  the  meantime  we  must  examine  a  little 
more  closely  the  words  of  Louis  Blanc’s  testimony. 

We  gather  from  this  closer  view  that  the  ordin¬ 
ary  lodges  and  the  general  run  of  Freemasons — 
even  in  France — were  not  entrusted  with  the  de¬ 
signs  of  the  conspirators.  These  conspirators 


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created  special  lodges — “arrieres  loges,”  as  they 
are  called — behind  (and  above)  the  ordinary 
lodges.  The  1 1  innovators  ’  ’  were  thus  protected  by 
a  screen  or  several  screens,  one  behind  the  other, 
of  unsuspected  and  unsuspecting  Masons.  These 
were  the  “shadowy  sanctuaries, ”  open  only  to  the 
adept,  where  blow  upon  blow  of  the  revolution 
could  be  directed  in  safety — as  from  a  bomb-proof 
dug-out  or  the  armoured  top  of  a  battleship. 


CHAPTER  II 


We  have  seen  that  the  Illuminati  are  mentioned 
both  by  the  Abb6  Barruel  and  by  Mrs.  Webster 
as  one  of  the  Prime  Movers  of  the  French  Revolu¬ 
tion.  Indeed,  Mrs.  Webster  goes  further  and  calls 
“Spartacus”  Weishaupt  the  “inventor  of  world- 
revolution.”  A  careful  study  of  Barruel,  however, 
suggests  that  the  Illuminati  were  only  one  of  many 
sects  which  worked  with  the  same  means  for  the 
same  object.  They  are  important  chiefly  because 
we  know  a  good  deal  about  them.  Their  archives 
were  captured  and  published  by  the  Elector  of 
Bavaria.  That  makes  them  interesting,  for  we  can 
study  them,  as  we  study  the  working  of  bees  in  a 
glass  hive.  But  it  is  also  a  danger,  for  we  may  be 
led  by  our  knowledge  of  them  to  give  them  too 
high  a  place  in  the  revolutionary  hierarchy.  We 
know  that  this  “formidable  sect”  had  a  hand  in 
the  French  Revolution;  but  it  was  not  the  only 
sect,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  it  was  the  chief  sect. 
Indeed,  we  shall  see  when  we  examine  it  more 


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closely  that  it  leads  us  into  a  blind  alley.  It  en¬ 
tices  us  along  in  the  most  promising  and  alluring 
way ;  but  it  ends  in  a  dead  wall. 

We  know  a  good  deal  about  Adam  Weishaupt. 
He  was  born  in  1748,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
eight  was  Professor  of  Law  in  the  University  of 
Ingolstadt,  in  Bavaria.  We  know  that  even  before 
this  early  age  he  had  worked  out  the  general 
lines  of  his  system  and  of  his  philosophy.  But 
there  is  one  thing  we  do  not  know — Did  he 
work  out  the  system  for  himself  or  was  he  in¬ 
spired  thereto  by  some  unknown  and  unsuspected 
teacher? 

We  do  know,  by  the  way,  that  he  was  a  thorough- 
paced  scoundrel,  for  among  his  intercepted  corre¬ 
spondence  was  a  series  of  letters,  written  by  him  to 
various  initiates,  imploring  them  to  help  him  to 
find  the  means  to  destroy  the  unborn  child  of  his 
sister-in-law,  before  its  birth  should  overwhelm 
him  with  disgrace.  After  such  a  confession  we  are 
entitled  to  doubt  if  the  philosophy  he  professed 
was  the  real  motive  of  his  activities. 

His  philosophy  need  not  detain  us  very  long. 
It  is  the  old  familiar  set  of  fallacies  and  unproved 
assumptions  formulated  some  little  time  before  by 
Jean  Jacques  Rousseau,  and  long  since  exploded 


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by  historians  on  the  one  side  and  by  men  of  science 
on  the  other. 

Liberty  and  equality  are  the  essential  rights 
that  man  in  his  original  and  primitive  perfection 
received  from  Nature.  Property  destroyed  Equal¬ 
ity  ;  Governments  and  Religions  destroyed  Liberty ; 
therefore  to  reinstate  man  in  his  original  rights  it 
was  necessary  to  destroy  all  Religions,  all  Civil 
Societies,  and  all  Property. 

This  was  to  be  done  by  secret  organization — 

“Yes,”  he  prophesied,  “princes  and  nations 
shall  disappear  from  off  the  face  of  the  Earth.  Y es, 
a  time  shall  come  when  man  shall  acknowledge  no 
other  Law  than  the  great  book  of  Nature.  This 
Revolution  shall  be  the  work  of  our  Secret  Socie¬ 
ties,  and  that  is  one  of  our  Grand  Mysteries.” 

It  may  be  noted  in  passing  that  he  uses  the 
plural — as  if  he  were  aware  that  there  were  others 
working  along  tunnels  similar  to  those  which  he 
and  his  confederates  were  digging  so  busily. 

He  began  with  his  pupils  of  Ingolstadt,  the 
general  idea  being  that  “each  class  of  my  order 
must  be  the  preparatory  school  for  the  next.” 
He  educated  a  class  of  “  Insinuators,  ”  whose 
business  was  to  secure  initiates,  and  these  initiates 
were  only  let  into  the  secrets  of  the  organizations 


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when  they  were  proved  to  be  faithful  and  had  gone 
too  far  to  draw  back. 

The  scope  of  these  designs  is  revealed  in  the 
following  passage,  which  might  almost  persuade 
us  that  we  are  in  the  presence  of  the  “formidable 
sect”: 

“When  the  object  is  a  universal  Revolution,  all 
the  members  of  these  Societies,  aiming  at  the  same 
point,  and  aiding  one  another,  must  find  means  of 
governing  invisibly,  and  without  any  appearance 
of  violent  measures,  not  only  the  higher  and  more 
distinguished  class  of  any  particular  State,  but 
even  of  all  stations,  of  all  nations,  of  every  religion, 
insinuate  the  same  spirit  everywhere;  in  silence, 
but  with  the  greatest  possible  activity,  direct  the 
scattered  inhabitants  of  the  Earth  towards  the 
same  point.” 

With  marvellous  patience  and  cunning,  Weis- 
haupt  elaborated  a  secret  organization  closely 
resembling  Masonry,  of  four  classes,  subdivided 
into  six  degrees.  Young  men  were  tempted  into  it 
upon  various  false  pretences,  and  before  very  long 
the  organization  had  great  power  in  Bavaria  and 
other  parts  of  Germany. 

Then  came  a  great  chance.  Weishaupt  was 
fortunate  in  two  disciples,  “Cato”  Zwack  and  the 


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Hanoverian  Baron,  4 ‘Philo”  Knigge,  who  had 
dabbled  in  Freemasonry,  and  with  these  two  he 
conceived  the  project  of  capturing  or  illuminizing 
the  Masonic  Lodges. 

Weishaupt’s  instructions  on  the  gentle  art  of 
capturing  Freemasonry  are  interesting : 

“In  every  town  of  any  note  situated  within 
their  district  the  secret  chapters  shall  establish 
lodges  for  the  three  ordinary  degrees,  and  shall 
cause  men  of  sound  morals,  of  good  repute,  and  of 
easy  circumstances,  to  be  received  in  these  lodges. 
Such  men  are  much  to  be  sought  after,  and  are  to 
be  made  Masons,  even  though  they  should  not  be 
of  any  service  to  Illuminism  in  its  ulterior  projects.  ” 

These  methods  succeeded  beyond  expectation. 
Weishaupt  and  his  initiates  were  soon  in  secret 
control  of  a  multitude  of  lodges  throughout  Ger¬ 
many. 

But  the  great  chance  came  with  the  universal 
Masonic  Congress  at  Wilhelmsbaden  in  1782. 
At  that  Congress  “ Philo’ ’  Knigge  was  busy,  and 
he  gleefully  reports  his  progress  to  his  Master: 
“All  of  them,”  writes  Knigge,  “were  enchanted 
with  our  degrees  of  Epopt  and  of  Regent.”  Into 
these  degrees  the  Freemasons  were  enlisted  in 
shoals. 


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The  centre  of  the  conspiracy  was  now  in  Frank¬ 
fort,  and  was  spreading  in  all  directions.  The 
South  German  States,  Prussia,  Austria,  Holland, 
were  all  infected.  A  trusted  agent  was  sent  to 
London  “slily  to  illuminize  the  English.”  Several 
of  the  German  Courts  were  almost  completely  in 
the  hands  of  the  Illuminati.  Their  prestige  was 
becoming  enormous. 

But  in  the  height  of  his  success,  Weishaupt 
received  a  staggering  blow.  The  Elector  of 
Bavaria  swooped  down  upon  him,  obtained  evi¬ 
dence,  both  written  and  oral,  which  filled  Germany 
with  horror  and  covered  the  sect  with  confusion. 
Weishaupt  fled  to  another  part  of  Germany;  but 
his  organization  continued,  and,  as  we  shall  pre¬ 
sently  see,  its  agents  or  fugitives  helped  to  precipi¬ 
tate  that  Revolution  in  France  which  they  had 
failed  to  effect  in  Germany. 

We  have  said  that  our  study  of  the  Illuminati 
only  leads  us  into  a  cul-de-sac ,  a  blind  alley.  We 
come  to  Adam  Weishaupt,  and  we  get  no  further 
back.  But  at  its  other  end  this  blind  alley  joins 
the  main  roads,  or  rather  tunnels,  of  “occult” 
Freemasonry  and  Revolution. 

We  find  this  “filiation”  quite  clearly  in  Mira- 
beau’s  visits  to  Berlin.  Mirabeau  returned  from 


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Berlin  with  two  enthusiasms,  the  one  for  the  Jews, 
the  other  for  the  Illuminati.  Of  the  former  en¬ 
thusiasm  we  shall  have  something  to  say  later :  the 
latter  enthusiasm  bore  immediate  fruit.  Mira- 
beau  induced  “  Amelins’ ’  Bode,  the  disciple  and 
successor  of  “Spartacus”  Weishaupt,  to  “illumi- 
nize”  the  French  Masonic  Lodges. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  at  that  time  French  Free¬ 
masonry  was  assuming  certain  very  dangerous 
and  subversive  forms.  France  was,  in  fact, 
covered  with  a  web  of  secret  organizations  of  the 
Masonic  type,  and  of  these  Lodges  practically  all 
the  Jacobins  were  members. 

The  Grand  Orient  itself  had  become  a  vast 
revolutionary  organization.  Under  the  nominal 
rule  of  the  Grand  Master,  Philip  Egalite,  Duke  of 
Orleans,  were  the  Lodges  of  no  less  than  282  French 
towns ;  there  were  besides  81  Lodges  in  Paris  and 
16  at  Lyons.  Every  Lodge  sent  its  Deputy  to  the 
Grand  Orient,  and  every  Lodge  had  its  President, 
whose  duty  consisted  in  forwarding  the  orders  of 
the  Grand  Orient,  or  in  preparing  the  Brethren 
for  the  orders  which  they  were  to  receive. 

As  early  as  1776,  the  Central  Committee  of  the 
Grand  Orient  instructed  its  subordinates  to  pre¬ 
pare  the  Brethren  for  insurrection.  They  were  to 


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visit  the  Lodges  throughout  France,  to  conjure 
them  by  the  Masonic  Oath,  and  to  announce  that 
the  time  had  at  last  come  to  accomplish  their  ends 
in  the  death  of  tyrants. 

Barruel  (English  edition,  vol.  ii.,  p.  438)  gives 
an  account  of  the  manner  in  which  these  orders 
were  executed  at  Lille  in  that  year.  The  officers 
of  the  Regiment  of  La  Sarre,  stationed  at  that 
town,  were,  many  of  them,  Freemasons,  and  these 
were  invited  to  meet  the  Agent  of  the  Grand 
Orient,  an  officer  of  the  Artillery  called  Sinetty. 
In  a  grandiloquent  speech  he  told  them  that  the 
Universe  was  about  to  be  freed  from  its  fetters, 
that  the  tyrants  called  Kings  were  to  be  van¬ 
quished,  and  that  Religion  and  Kings  were  to  give 
way  to  Light,  Liberty,  and  Equality.  The  officers 
were  good  Masons,  and  they  were  also  loyal  sub¬ 
jects  of  their  King.  They  treated  the  message  half 
as  a  disagreeable  joke,  half  as  an  incomprehensible 
incident  to  be  dismissed  from  their  minds.  But, 
being  bound  by  their  Masonic  oath,  they  did  not 
report  the  incident  to  headquarters. 

While  the  Grand  Orient  thus  organized  Revolu¬ 
tion  throughout  France,  various  occult  Lodges 
had  their  parts  in  the  movement.  Thus  the  Paris 
Lodge  of  the  Coq  Heron  was  the  seat  of  the  propa- 


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ganda.  Its  chiefs  were  the  Due  de  la  Rochefou- 
cault,  Condorcet,  and  Sieyes,  and  in  1790  they 
controlled  funds  of  twenty  million  livres,  or 
£900,000,  at  that  time  an  enormous  sum. 

Barruel  quotes  the  main  principle  on  which  they 
founded  their  hopes  of  a  Revolution : 

“Want  and  opinion  are  the  two  agents  which 
make  all  men  act.  Cause  the  want,  govern  opin¬ 
ions,  and  you  will  overturn  all  the  existing  systems, 
however  well  consolidated  they  may  appear.” 

Now  Barruel  quotes  this  revolutionary  maxim 
on  the  authority  of  one  Dr.  Girtanner,  who,  he 
says,  had  been  able  to  penetrate  the  secrets  of 
revolutionary  Masonry  in  Paris.  Was  it  acted 
upon?  Everybody  knows  that  one  main  cause  of 
the  Revolution  in  Paris  was  the  scarcity  of  bread. 
That  scarcity  is  usually  said  to  be  due  to  a  bad 
harvest.  Mrs.  Webster,  however,  quotes  many 
authorities  to  show  that  the  scarcity  was  aggra¬ 
vated  by  the  deliberate  action  of  certain  people 
who  bought  and  held  up  the  grain.  These  people, 
in  her  view,  were  agents  of  the  Duke  of  Orleans 
and  of  what  is  called  the  Orleanist  conspiracy. 

“Montjoie  [says  Mrs.  Webster]  asserts  that 
agents  employed  by  the  Due  d’Orleans  deliber- 


22  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


ately  bought  up  the  grain,  and  either  sent  it  out 
of  the  country  or  concealed  it  in  order  to  drive  the 
people  to  revolt,  and  in  this  accusation  he  is 
supported  by  innumerable  contemporaries,  in¬ 
cluding  the  democrat,  Fantin-Des  Odoards,  Mou- 
nier,  whose  integrity  is  not  to  be  doubted,  the 
Liberal  Malouet,  Ferrieres,  and  Madame  de  la 
Tour  du  Pin.  Beaulieu,  however,  one  of  the  most 
reliable  of  contemporaries,  considers  that  the 
Orleanists  would  have  been  unable  to  create  a 
famine  by  these  means,  but  that  they  accom¬ 
plished  their  purpose  by  stirring  up  public  feeling 
on  the  subject  of  monopolizers,  thereby  inducing 
the  people  to  pillage  the  grain.  The  farmers  and 
com  merchants,  therefore,  fearing  that  their 
supplies  would  be  destroyed  in  transit,  were  afraid 
to  release  them.  By  this  means  a  fictitious  famine 
was  created.,, 

Here  at  least  is  evidence  which  makes  Gir- 
tanner’s  statement  credible.  He  states  that  the 
secret  societies  planned  to  create  scarcity;  con¬ 
temporaries  believed  that  scarcity  was  created,  but 
put  it  down  not  to  the  secret  organizations  of  which 
they  knew  nothing,  but  to  the  Duke  of  Orleans. 

As  to  the  other  economic  cause  of  the  French 
Revolution,  the  spell  of  bad  trade  and  unemploy¬ 
ment,  it  was  produced  by  the  Eden  Treaty,  a 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  23 


commercial  treaty  so  disadvantageous  to  France 
that  it  was  ascribed  by  contemporaries  either  to 
corruption  or  treachery.  Here  also  Girtanner’s 
statement  furnishes  a  clue  which  might  be  worth 
while  for  the  student  to  follow  up.  What  remains 
certain  is  that  the  economic  crisis  which  preceded 
the  Revolution  was  intensified,  if  not  created,  by 
artificial  causes.  That  these  causes  were  part  of  a 
conspiracy  to  bring  about  Revolution  is  not  cer¬ 
tain,  but  possible — and  probable. 

But  to  return.  Among  the  “arriere  loges” — in 
whose  “shadowy  sanctuaries”  the  Revolution  was 
plotted — we  must  mention  the  Lodges  of  the  Amis 
Reunis  and  the  Philalethes.  The  latter  was  the 
haunt  of  those  philosophers  and  dabblers  in  litera¬ 
ture  who  in  all  ages  are  the  easy  prey  of  their 
vanity.  The  former  sheltered  such  political  fana¬ 
tics  as  Condorcet,  Brissot,  Danton,  Saint-Martin, 
and  Savalette  de  Lange.  It  was  to  this  retreat  that 
Mirabeau  brought  “Amelius”  Bode,  the  Baron  de 
Busche,  and  the  other  Illuminati  who  were  to 
“illuminize”  French  Freemasonry.  But  French 
Freemasonry  hardly  required  “illuminization” 
from  Germany.  The  work  had  already  been 
carried  through  by  kindred  spirits,  if  not  by  fellow- 
conspirators. 


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Among  these  shadowy  and  sinister  figures  were 
the  notorious  “Count  Cagliostro,”  whose  real 
name  was  Joseph  Balsamo — a  practitioner  of  all 
forms  of  magic,  alchemy,  and  fraud — and  the 
“Count  of  Saint-Germain,”  a  Theosophist,  as  we 
should  now  call  him,  who  boasted  that  he  had  lived 
through  several  incarnations.  It  was  this  im¬ 
postor  who  founded  the  sect  of  Adamites,  some 
little  distance  outside  Paris,  in  which,  according 
to  Barruel,  the  two  sexes  lived  in  promiscuous 
concubinage,  one  lady  only  being  reserved  as  the 
peculiar  property  of  the  founder,  then,  according 
to  his  own  reckoning,  in  his  130th  year. 

Nor  should  we  forget  Martinez  Pasqualis, 
generally  reputed  to  be  a  Portuguese  Jew,  who 
founded  his  Order  of  Cohens,  with  a  programme 
which  owed  something  to  the  ancient  mysteries 
of  the  Cabala.  Pasqualis  and  his  successor,  Saint- 
Martin,  worked  in  France  on  very  much  the  same 
lines  as  Weishaupt  worked  in  Germany.  Indeed, 
the  more  we  look  at  this  eighteenth-century  net¬ 
work  of  secret  conspiracy,  the  more  probable  does 
it  seem  that  they  all  owed  something  to  a  common 
inspiration  at  that  time  and  up  till  now  suspected 
but  unknown. 

When  the  Revolution  came  some  at  least  of 


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these  secret  workers  emerged  from  their  shadowy 
sanctuaries  and  came  into  the  open.  The  Jacobins 
were  not  only  initiates  themselves,  but  ruled  their 
affairs  in  ghastly  imitation  of  the  Masonic  order. 

“It  is  not  by  chance  [says  Barruel]  that  the 
Jacobin  Clubs  both  in  Paris  and  the  Provinces 
become  the  general  receptacle  for  Rosicrucians, 
Knights  Templars,  Knights  of  the  Sun,  and 
Knights  Kadosch;  or  of  those  in  particular  who, 
under  the  name  of  Philalethes,  were  enthusiasti¬ 
cally  wedded  to  the  mysteries  of  Swedenborg, 
whether  at  Paris,  Lyons,  Avignon,  Bordeaux,  or 
Grenoble.  .  .  .  The  list  is  public,  and  it  contains 
the  names  of  all  the  profound  adepts  who  had 
hitherto  been  dispersed  among  the  Lodges.” 
( Barruel ,  vol.  iv.,  p.  382.) 

Were  they  the  real  plotters  of  the  Revolution, 
or  were  they,  too,  puppets,  who  danced  obediently 
to  the  guidance  of  an  unseen  hand?  Their  fate 
suggests  their  role,  for  all  or  nearly  all  of  them  died 
under  the  guillotine,  carrying  with  them  their 
dark  secrets  to  be  buried  for  ever  in  the  quicklime 
of  the  general  fosse. 


CHAPTER  III 

It  is  now  evident  how  the  Revolutionaries  worked 
under  the  cloak  of  Freemasonry  for  the  downfall 
of  France.  We  are  therefore  driven  to  consider 
more  closely  the  nature  not  indeed  of  Freemasonry 
in  the  English  sense,  but  of  those  orders  of  Free¬ 
masonry  which  in  various  parts  of  the  world  are 
generally  associated  with  political  propaganda. 

It  is  commonly  supposed — and  in  our  own 
country  and  the  United  States  there  is  sufficient 
ground  for  the  supposition — that  Masonic  ritual 
consists  of  certain  innocent  and  friendly,  though 
symbolic,  ceremonies,  which  aim  at  strengthening 
the  noble  duties  of  charity,  fraternity,  loyalty,  and 
fair-dealing  among  men  who  are  true  citizens  of 
their  Empire  and  whole-hearted  believers  in 
Christian  morality.  “To  so  high  an  eminence  has 
the  credit  of  Freemasonry  been  advanced,”  says  the 
old  English  Charge  to  initiates,  ‘  ‘  that  in  every  age 
Monarchs  themselves  have  been  promoters  of  the 

art,  have  not  thought  it  derogatory  from  their 

26 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  27 


dignity  to  exchange  the  sceptre  for  the  trowel, 
have  patronized  our  mysteries  and  joined  in  our 
Assemblies.”  In  1799  and  1817,  the  British  House 
of  Commons,  in  specific  Acts,  recognized  the  laud¬ 
able  character  of  the  craft  and  provided  for  its 
continuance. 

So  far,  well.  The  history  of  Freemasonry, 
however,  though  it  may  start  in  England  with 
the  three  orders,  or  degrees,  of  “Entered  Appren¬ 
tice,”  “Fellow  Craft,”  and  “Master,”  by  no 
means  ends  there,  and  in  the  veiled  accounts  of 
certain  Continental  Lodges  we  come  upon  forms 
of  ritual  and  upon  dark  sayings  that  are  not  only 
foreign  to  the  atmosphere  of  the  “Mother  Grand 
Lodge,”  but  that  point  to  underlying  motives 
which,  if  they  bear  any  real  significance,  are  sig¬ 
nificant  of  evil.  Whether  or  not  the  successive 
degrees  in  revolutionary  Masonry  constitute  a 
hierarchy,  each  receiving  its  orders  from  the 
degree  immediately  above,  or  are  mainly  indepen¬ 
dent  societies,  it  is  difficult  to  say ;  but  it  is  note¬ 
worthy  that  the  higher  the  degree  the  more  mys¬ 
terious  and  disquieting  appear  its  ceremonies. 
There  are  at  least  thirty-three  separate  degrees, 
each  with  a  peculiar  ritual  of  its  own,  based  on  the 
alleged  history  of  the  Order,  and  each  conducting 


28  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


its  observances  and  deliberations  with  the  utmost 
secrecy. 

In  the  lower  orders  the  initiate  into  the  secrets 
of  revolutionary  Masonry  is  allowed  to  hear  the 
words  Liberty  and  Equality  only  occasionally, 
but  when  his  ears  have  grown  familiar  with  them, 
and  after  he  has  learned  how  to  be  silent,  he  is 
raised  to  the  grade  of  Master.  It  is  then  that  he 
hears  for  the  first  time  of  a  Founder,  whose  murder 
has  to  be  revenged.  The  succeeding  grades,  es¬ 
pecially  those  from  the  ninth  upwards,  so  accustom 
him  to  the  idea  of  vengeance  that  it  finally  becomes 
habitual.  Every  Master  Mason  is  entrusted  with 
a  twofold  commission — first,  to  seek  for  the  lost 
word,  which  he  finds  in  a  higher  grade  to  be 
Jehovah,  or  natural  religion;  and,  secondly,  to 
revenge  the  death  of  Hiram,  of  which  the  Master’s 
sign  is  a  constant  memorial — a  feigned  stab  with 
the  thumb.  In  the  ninth  degree  (the  Elected 
Knights  of  the  Nine)  a  still  more  emphatic  cere¬ 
mony  is  observed.  According  to  Albert  Pike’s 
Ritual  of  the  Southern  Jurisdiction  of  the  U.  S. 
(Scottish  Rite) ,  each  new  entrant  and  eight  already 
Elected  Knights  lay  aside  their  Masonic  clothing 
and  jewels,  and  each  is  armed  with  a  sword  and 
dagger.  They  enter  a  room  which  is  lighted  only 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  29 


by  a  single  lamp  set  on  the  floor,  by  the  side  of  a 
couch  of  leaves,  on  which  is  placed  a  representa¬ 
tion  of  Abairam  sleeping. 

“‘Here  is  the  assassin?’  says  the  Master  of 
Ceremonies.  ‘  Strike  boldly  at  his  head  and  heart, 
and  revenge  the  death  of  the  Master! ’  The  candi¬ 
date  does  so  with  his  dagger,  a  voice  exclaiming 
‘Nekum!’  [Hebrew  for  revenge] — and  the  Master, 
of  Ceremonies,  having  with  his  sword  separated 
the  bleeding  head  from  the  trunk,  gives  it  to  the 
candidate,  who,  holding  it  in  his  right  hand, 
returns  to  the  chapter-room.” 

It  is  in  the  ninth  order,  too,  that  the  philosophy 
of  goodwill  and  benevolence  to  mankind,  incul¬ 
cated  in  the  lower  degrees,  is  supplemented  by  an 
eloquent  appeal  to  destroy  Ignorance,  Tyranny, 
and  Fanaticism,  and  it  is  interesting  to  notice  that 
in  this  and  the  succeeding  degrees  numerous 
Hebrew  names  and  associations  creep  into  the 
rituals.  The  following  striking  passage  is  taken 
from  the  ritual  of  the  eleventh  degree  (the  Sublime 
Knights  Elu  of  the  Twelve) : 

“  The  Venerable  Master:  My  Brethren,  are  you 
willing  to  take  upon  yourselves  the  duties  of 
Governors  in  Israel,  and  chiefs  over  the  tribute, 


30  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


with  the  resolution  to  discharge  those  duties 
faithfully  and  impartially? 

11  All:  We  are.  .  .  . 

“  The  V.  M.:  Let  then  our  Chancellor  write  the 
degree  .  .  .  making  these  twelve  our  Viceregents, 
each  in  his  Province,  to  be  obeyed  accordingly.” 

The  next  three  orders  are  engaged  in  symbolic 
rituals  dealing  with  the  rebuilding  of  the  Temple 
of  Solomon  which  are  difficult  to  understand,  but 
considerable  light  is  thrown  upon  their  meaning 
in  the  concluding  catechism  of  the  15th  degree 
(the  Knights  of  the  East,  Sword  or  Eagle) : 

“Q. :  Of  what  are  the  ruins  of  the  walls  of  the 
city  and  the  Holy  House  an  emblem? 

“A.:  Of  a  country  that  has  lost  its  liberties, 
and  an  Order  ruined  and  proscribed. 

“Q.:  To  what  do  the  seventy  lights  of  the 
Lodge  allude? 

“  A. :  To  the  seventy  years  of  Hebrew  captivity. 

“ Q . :  Of  what  are  the  chains  of  the  captives, 
with  their  triangular  links,  an  emblem? 

11  A.:  Of  the  three  powers  that  have  in  all  ages 
fettered  the  human  intellect  and  chained  the  limbs 
of  the  people:  the  Kings,  Priests,  and  Nobles —  of 
Tyranny,  Superstition,  and  Privilege. 

11 Q.:  What  art  do  you  profess? 

“ A.:  Freemasonry. 

liQ.:  What  do  you  build? 

11  A.:  Temples  and  Tabernacles. 

“Q.:  Where? 


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“ A . :  In  the  souls  of  men,  and  among  the 
nations. 

“  Q. :  Which  way  do  you  travel  ? 

“ A. :  From  Babylon  to  Jerusalem.  .  .  .  ” 

It  is  not  difficult  to  see  whither  all  this  sym¬ 
bolism  and  catechism  points.  As  the  candidate 
becomes  more  and  more  initiated  into  the  secrets 
and  inner  history  of  his  craft  he  becomes  more  and 
more  familiar  with  the  idea  of  liberty  as  a  basic 
principle  in  Masonic  life  and  thought,  and  to  the 
possibility  of  himself  having,  if  need  be,  to  offer  up 
his  life  “in  the  cause  of  downtrodden  races”  and 
“in  defence  of  free  government.”  Such  an  ideal 
sounds  noble  enough,  but  let  us  try  to  find  out 
what  motive  lies  behind  it.  We  have  mentioned 
that  one  of  the  duties  of  a  Master  Mason  in 
revolutionary  Masonry  is  to  seek  for  the  “lost 
word.”  By  the  time  he  is  fully  initiated  as  a  Rosi- 
crucian  (18th  degree)  he  has  learned  that  the  day 
on  which  the  word  Jehovah  was  lost  is  precisely 
that  on  which  the  Son  of  God  died  on  the  Cross. 

“As  soon  as  the  candidate  [says  the  Abbe 
Barruel]  has  proved  that  he  understands  the 
Masonic  meaning  of  the  inscription  inri  (Jesus  of 
Nazareth,  King  of  the  Jews),  the  Master  [of  Cere- 


32  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


monies]  exclaims,  My  dear  Brethren ,  the  word  is 
found  again ,  and  all  present  applaud  the  luminous 
discovery,  that  He  whose  death  was  the  consum¬ 
mation  and  the  grand  mystery  of  the  Christian 
Religion  was  no  more  than  a  common  Jew  crucified 
for  his  crimes.  ...  It  is  on  the  Gospel  and  on 
the  Son  of  Man  that  the  adept  is  to  avenge  the 
brethren,  the  Pontiffs  of  Jehovah.” 

The  Knights  Templars  (27th  degree)  have  again 
and  again  been  accused  of  like  heretical  practices, 
and  it  seems  clear  from  the  evidence  that  the 
charge  of  denying  Christ  and  defiling  the  Cross  at 
their  Ceremony  of  Initiation  has  been  firmly  estab¬ 
lished.  Step  by  step  are  the  initiates  into  the 
deeper  secrets  led  to  abandon  belief,  not  only  in 
Christianity,  but  in  all  revealed  religion,  and  by 
making  them  out  and  out  materialists  the  ground 
is  prepared  for  the  seeds  of  the  Jacobinical  code 
of  Revolution.  When  at  length  the  candidate  is 
admitted  into  the  30th  grade,  and,  after  going 
through  terrifying  ordeals  to  test  his  obedience  and 
secrecy,  becomes  a  Knight  Kadosch,  he  learns  that 
it  is  no  longer  Adoniram  or  Hiram  whose  death 
cries  for  vengeance.  The  grade  of  Kadosch  com¬ 
memorates,  he  is  informed,  the  suppression  of  the 
Order  of  Templars  by  Pope  Clement  V.  and  Philip 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  33 


le  Bel,  together  with  the  murder  of  the  Grand 
Commander,  Jacques  de  Molai,  who  was  burned 
alive  by  Philip’s  orders  on  March  11,  1314. 

Thus  is  the  mask  completely  thrown  aside,  and 
the  hidden  designs  of  the  Red  Masonic  orders  made 
clear.  The  objects  to  be  pursued  and  annihilated 
are  the  two  great  institutions  of  the  Christian 
world,  represented  by  Clement  V.  and  Philip  IV., 
the  Church  and  the  State.  “The  religion  which  is 
to  be  destroyed  to  recover  the  word,  or  the  true 
doctrine,”  remarks  Barruel  with  true  insight  (vol. 
ii«,  P-  325),  “  is  the  religion  of  Christ,  founded  on 
revelation.  This  word  in  its  full  extent  is  Liberty 
and  Equality,  to  be  established  by  the  total  over¬ 
throw  of  the  altar  and  the  throne.” 

We  conclude  with  a  few  significant  sentences 
taken  from  the  catechism  of  the  Knights  Kadosch 
degree.  (We  have  been  unable  to  obtain  any 
authentic  information  on  the  ritual  of  the  higher 
degrees.) 

“My  Brother  [the  Candidate],  you  desire  to 
unite  yourself  to  an  Order  which  has  laboured  in 
silence  and  secrecy  for  more  than  five  hundred 
years  with  a  single  end  in  view,  and  hitherto  with 
only  partial  success.  .  .  .  The  Order  of  Knights 
Kadosch  has  for  its  mission  the  avenging  of  a  great 


34  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


crime.  .  .  .  Do  you  fully  understand  that  this 
degree  is  not,  like  much  of  so-called  Masonry,  a 
sham  that  means  nothing  and  amounts  to  nothing; 
.  .  .  that  what  you  are  now  engaged  in  is  real , 
will  require  the  performance  of  duty ,  will  exact 
sacrifice ,  will  expose  you  to  danger ;  and  that  this 
Order  means  to  deal  with  the  affairs  of  nations  and 
be  once  more  a  Power  in  the  world  ?  ” 

We  have  seen,  so  far  (i)  that  Revolution  is  not 
a  spontaneous  combustion  of  the  social  order;  but 
that  (2)  the  match  is  set  by  some  secret  agency  or 
“formidable  sect”;  (3)  that  this  agency  conceals 
itself  in  the  shadowy  sanctuaries  of  certain  forms 
of  Freemasonry;  and  (4)  that  these  subversive 
forms  of  Freemasonry  have  a  ritual  of  hatred  for 
the  Cross  and  veneration  for  the  Temple  which 
suggest  a  Hebraic  origin. 

But  having  got  so  far,  we  are  faced  by  another 
question — if  these  secret  societies  instigate  revolu¬ 
tions,  who  or  what  instigates  the  secret  societies? 

And  here,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Freemasons,  we 
must  be  careful  not  to  suggest  any  unfair  suspicion 
of  innocent  people.  If  we  find  a  distinctly  Jewish 
ritual  in  these  subversive  orders  of  Freemasons, 
that  is  not  to  suggest  that  all  Jews  are  Freemasons 
or  are  subversive.  On  the  contrary,  it  is  evident 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  35 


that  many  Jews  are  good  citizens  and  patriotic 
British  subjects.  What  is  alleged,  however — and 
this  allegation  we  must  examine — is  that  a  secret 
sect  of  Jews  cherish  political  designs  of  a  subver¬ 
sive  nature,  and  that  this  sect  works  for  revolution 
behind  a  mask  of  Freemasonry. 

Now  we  have  remarked  that  the  ritual,  particu¬ 
larly  of  the  Templars,  is  both  Hebraic  and  sugges¬ 
tive  of  a  design  of  revenge.  It  might  help  us  a 
little,  then,  to  inquire  into  the  origin  of  this  par¬ 
ticular  Order,  with  which  the  “Ancient  and 
Accepted  Scottish  Rite”  as  practised  by  the  Red 
Lodges  is  historically  connected. 

And,  indeed,  no  less  an  authority  than  Augustus 
Schlegel  points  the  way : 

“The  Order  of  the  Templars  [says  Schlegel  in 
his  Philosophy  of  History ]  has  been  the  bridge  over 
which  all  that  body  of  mysteries  (i.e.,  of  esoteric 
Freemasonry)  has  passed  into  the  Occident.  .  .  . 
Through  them  come  the  traditions  of  Solomon  and 
his  Temple.  ...  A  society  from  the  breast  of 
which,  as  from  a  laboratory  where  the  spirit  of 
destruction  forged  its  arms,  came  the  Albigenses, 
the  Jacobins,  and  the  Carbonari,  could  not  have  a 
tendency  truly  Christian  nor  a  constitution  poli¬ 
tically  just,  nor  could  it  exercise  a  beneficent 
influence  on  humanity  in  general.” 


36  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


The  most  eminent  specialist  on  this  subject  of 
the  history  of  the  Templars  is  the  Comte  le  Cou- 
teulx  de  Canteleu,  whose  book1  on  secret  societies 
and  sects  is  founded  not  upon  legend  and  tra¬ 
dition  merely  but  upon  the  archives  of  the 
Templars  themselves  in  his  own  possession  and 
elsewhere. 

The  Count  explains  how  this  crusading  Order 
during  its  long  stay  of  half  a  century  in  Palestine 
formed  a  close  and  sinister  connection  with  the 
Order  of  Assassins  or  Hachichiens — a  branch  of  the 
Ishmaelites  of  the  East,  whose  members  must  have 
been  Jewish,  since  their  object  was  the  rebuilding 
of  Solomon’s  Temple.  This  secret  society  infested 
the  mountains  round  Jerusalem,  and  carried  on  a 
war  of  brigandage  and  assassination  both  against 
the  Saracens  and  the  Crusaders. 

“The  Templars  [says  our  author],  seeing  that 
the  Realm  of  Jerusalem  was  going  swiftly  towards 
its  ruin,  made  alliance  and  treaty  with  the  Assas¬ 
sins.  It  appears  to  be  certain  that  it  was  Guil¬ 
laume  de  Montbard  who  received  from  the  Old 
Man  of  the  Mountain  the  Masonic  initiation  in  a 

1  Les  Sectes  et  Societes  Secretes ,  Politigues  et  Religeuses;  essai  sur 
leur  histoire  depuis  les  temps  les  plus  re-oules  jusqu’  &  la  Revolution 
frangaise  (1863). 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  37 


cavern  in  the  Liban,  and  transmitted  it  to  his 
companions,  who  were  all  initiated  in  the  Masonic 
cult” 

It  is  certain  that  when  the  Templars  returned 
to  Europe  they  were  accused  of  following  an  un- 
Christian  and  blasphemous  ritual. 

Two  Masonic — or  rather,  as  they  call  themselves, 
“  co-Masonic” — writers,  A.  Both  well- Gosse  and 
L.  J.  Dickinson,  find  in  the  accounts  of  this  ritual 
preserved  in  the  famous  trial  proofs  that  the  Order 
of  the  Templars  had  been  initiated  into  the  secrets 
of  Masonry.  “It  seems  probable,”  say  these  two 
writers  in  their  book  on  the  Templars,  “that  there 
was  a  basis  of  truth  even  in  the  accusations  of  a 
horrible  or  grotesque  kind :  but  it  was  a  truth  per¬ 
verted  or  misunderstood,  distorted  by  the  igno¬ 
rance  of  uninitiated  observers,  who  misinterpreted 
fragments  of  ritual  that  they  could  not  compre¬ 
hend.’  ’  In  the  beginning  of  the  fourteenth  century, 
Philip  le  Bel,  of  France,  with  the  more  or  less 
reluctant  consent  of  the  Pope,  Clement  V.,  dis¬ 
persed  the  Order  and  burned  many  of  its  leaders — 
including  the  famous  Jacques  de  Molai — at  the 
stake. 

At  the  same  time  Philip  drove  the  Jews  out  of 
France. 


38  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Now,  it  is  possible — although  here  again  any¬ 
thing  in  the  nature  of  proof  is  wanting — that  the 
Templars  and  the  Jews  made  common  cause. 
What  is  certain  is  that  the  Templars  survived  as  a 
secret  Masonic  organization  with  a  ritual  inspired 
by  hatred  of  and  vengeance  on  Church  and  State. 

The  execution  of  Jacques  de  Molai  in  the  four¬ 
teenth  century  is  one  of  those  unhappy  far-off 
things  for  which  no  sane  man  would  nourish  an 
active  resentment;  but  revenge  for  the  execution 
of  Jacques  de  Molai,  turned  into  a  ritual  against 
Church,  and  King  is  another  matter.  That  ritual 
was  practised  on  the  eve  of  the  French  Revolution. 
When  the  head  of  Louis  XVI.  fell  into  the  sack 
not  only  was  the  death  of  Jacques  de  Molai  re¬ 
venged  upon  a  descendant  of  Philip  le  Bel,  but  a 
proscribed  Order — and  a  proscribed  race — were 
revenged  both,  and  at  once,  upon  Church  and 
State. 

And  now  as  to  the  connection  between  the  Order 
of  the  Templars  and  what  is  called  the  Ancient  and 
Accepted  Scottish  Rite  practised  in  the  Grand 
Orient  and  the  Lodges  of  Red  Masonry  the  world 
over.  When  Philip  le  Bel  dispersed  the  Order  in 
France,  he  advised  his  brother  monarch,  Edward 
II.,  to  follow  his  example  in  England.  Edward 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  39 


took  his  advice,  although  his  persecution  was  more 
mild  and  more  dilatory  than  the  French  King’s, 
and  as  a  result  of  these  two  persecutions  many  of 
the  Knights  are  said  to  have  been  driven  into 
Scotland. 

Tradition  says  that  an  eminent  band  of  French 
Templars,  disguised  as  operative  Masons,  landed 
on  the  island  of  Mull,  and  were  received  by  the 
Scottish  Grand  Master.  These  Knights,  it  is  said, 
helped  Robert  the  Bruce  to  win  the  Battle  of 
Bannockburn,  and  with  his  connivance  founded 
the  famous  Lodge  of  Kilwinning,  which  claims  an 
apostolic  succession  both  in  ritual  and  government. 
When  the  Jacobite  cause  found  refuge  in  France, 
the  Scottish  Rite  was  brought  back  to  the  home 
of  its  founders,  and  was  accepted  by  the  Grand 
Orient,  as  a  convenient  symbolism  for  its  work  of 
subversion. 

The  ritual  also  reached  Germany,  and  in  1762 
Frederick  the  Great,  who  had  taken  under  his 
wing  the  patronage  of  all  German  Masonry,  pro¬ 
mulgated  his  Grand  Constitution,  the  Constitu¬ 
tion  being  confirmed  also  at  Bordeaux  in  the  same 
year.  In  1786,  Frederick’s  new  Constitution  of 
the  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  delegated 
his  powers  to  a  Council  for  each  nation.  And 


40  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


from  France,  in  1761,  one  Stephen  Morin — pro¬ 
bably  but  not  certainly  a  Jew — was  deputed  by  the 
Grand  Consistory  of  the  Sublime  Princes  of  the 
Royal  Secret,  of  whom  the  Duke  de  Chartres, 
afterwards  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  was  the  one 
designated  to  carry  the  torch  to  the  New  World. 

Thus  a  ritual  originating  among  the  Ishmaelites 
and  Assassins  of  Mount  Lebanon  gradually  pene¬ 
trated  Europe  and  the  New  World.  It  is  a  singular 
story,  but  suggests  rather  than  proves  the  connec¬ 
tion  between  the  Hebraic  and  Masonic  secret 
organizations. 

There  is,  indeed,  at  least  one  document  which 
supports  this  theory.  It  is  quoted  in  Deschamps’ 
Les  SocietSs  Secretes  et  la  Societe  (vol.  iii.,  Annexe 
B),  and  purports  to  be  a  letter  from  a  certain  Jean 
Baptiste  Simonini  written  from  Florence  on  the 
1st  August,  1806,  to  the  Abbe  Barruel  congratulat¬ 
ing  him  on  his  book,  which  Simonini  had  just  read. 
The  Abbe,  it  will  be  remembered,  had  contended 
in  his  Memoirs  of  Jacobinism  that  the  French 
Revolution  had  been  in  great  part  engineered  by 
certain  Masonic  organizations.  Simonini  informs 
the  Abbe  that  his  conclusions  are  correct  but  do 
not  go  far  enough,  and  that  behind  the  Masons 
were  the  Jews.  He  goes  on  to  tell  how  during  the 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  41 


Revolution  he  was  at  Pi6mont,  and  for  his  own 
safety  contrived  to  persuade  certain  Jews  who  were 
active  in  the  Revolution  there  that  he  was  himself 
a  Jew  by  descent.  They  induced  him  to  become  a 
Mason,  and  told  him,  when  he  had  thoroughly 
won  their  confidence,  that  Maues  and  the  Old  Man 
of  the  Mountains  were  Jews;  that  the  Freemasons 
and  Illumines  were  founded  by  Jews;  that  all  anti- 
Christian  sects  emanated  from  them,  that  they  had 
many  partisans  within  the  Church  both  in  Italy 
and  Spain;  that  the  Bourbons  were  their  hereditary 
enemies;  that  they  had  made  themselves  masters 
of  Christian  wealth,  which  they  were  using  to 
promote  revolution;  and  that  they  promised  them¬ 
selves  in  less  than  a  century  to  be  masters  of  the 
world;  to  abolish  all  other  sects;  themselves  to 
become  the  Rulers;  to  make  synagogues  of  the 
Christian  churches;  and  to  reduce  the  Christian 
peoples  to  a  state  of  slavery. 

Barruel,  who  had  written  his  book  without  any 
such  suspicion,  was  puzzled  what  to  do  with  the 
letter.  He  did  not  desire  to  give  publicity  to  a 
statement  which  he  could  not  prove,  and  he  deter¬ 
mined  to  inform  the  authorities  of  its  contents  and 
give  the  letter  into  the  keeping  of  his  ecclesiastical 
superiors  (in  whose  archives  it  still  remains).  Ip 


4 2  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 

the  course  of  his  short  annotations  on  the  docu¬ 
ment,  however,  he  suggests  that,  owing  to  the 
double  persecution  of  Philip  le  Bel,  the  Jews  may 
have  made  common  cause  with  the  Templars,  and 
that  this  may  be  the  origin  of  the  Masonic  degree 
of  Kadosch. 

A  remarkable  attempt  to  supplement  evidence 
by  argument  is  made  by  M.  Copin- Albancelli  in  his 
book,  La  Conjuration  Juive  Contre  le  Monde  Chre¬ 
tien  (1909).  M.  Copin -Albancelli’s  thesis  is  that 
except  the  Jews  there  is  no  race  or  interest  capable 
of  inspiring  the  continuous  hatred  of  Church  and 
State  which  he  finds  in  French  Freemasonry. 
Further,  that  the  Jews  at  one  time  had  a  Govern¬ 
ment  ;  that  there  is  evidence  of  the  existence  of  this 
Government  after  the  Dispersion;  that  it  was 
driven  underground  by  the  various  persecutions  to 
which  the  Jews  have  been  subjected;  but  that  it 
still  exists  as  a  secret  organization.  And  he  comes 
to  the  conclusion,  from  an  elaborate  process  of 
argument,  that  the  occult  power  which  works 
behind  Freemasonry  is  no  other  than  the  secret 
government  of  the  Jewish  nation  (p.  435). 

We  do  not  propose  to  examine  the  logical  steps — 
some  of  them  giant  strides — by  which  M.  Copin- 
Albancelli  advances  to  this  conclusion.  We  may 


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point  out,  however,  that  there  are  certain  obvious 
difficulties.  One  is  that  Freemasonry  in  general — 
both  in  England  and  in  Germany — was  closed  to 
the  Jews,  at  least  through  the  greater  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  although  there  is  reason  to 
suppose  that  this  exclusion  did  not  apply  in  certain 
of  the  governing  or  occult  orders  of  Continental 
Freemasonry. 


CHAPTER  IV 


We  have  seen  how  M.  Copin-Albancelli  attempted 
to  prove  that  subversive  Freemasonry  was  the 
secret  government  of  the  Jews.  This  argument 
has  the  horrible  implication  that  certain  groups  of 
the  Jewish  race  have  a  secret  organization  which 
works  for  the  destruction  of  the  Christian  nations. 

A  moderate  and  probably  truthful  view  of  this 
question  is  contained  in  a  very  remarkable  book 
by  the  Abbe  Joseph  Lemann  (JJ  Entree  des  Israelites 
dans  la  Societe  frangaise) .  Lemann,  it  is  important 
to  note,  was  himself  a  Jew  who  embraced  Chris¬ 
tianity  and  became  a  Christian  priest. 

Lemann,  then,  describes  the  assertions  which 
we  have  discussed  as  an  exaggeration — “une  these 
exageree .”  He  admits,  however,  that  very  close 
relations  exist  between  Jewry  and  the  secret 
societies.  And  he  sets  these  relations  down  to  the 
Hebraic  antagonism  against  Christianity  which 
led  the  Jews  “to  utilize  secret  societies,  more  or 
less,  for  their  own  interests.” 


44 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  45 


Lemann  points  to  the  origin  of  these  occult 
Masonic  societies  in  the  Cabal — a  Hebrew  word 
meaning  “ received  tradition.”  From  the  time  of 
Moses  to  the  time  of  Christ,  the  Cabal  had  existed 
as  the  oral  but  secret  custodian  of  the  most  sublime 
truths  of  the  Hebraic  religion.  It  was  the  philo¬ 
sophy  of  the  Hebrews.  But  at  the  Dispersion  it 
turned  from  wine  to  vinegar,  and  passed  either 
into  a  shadowy  realm  of  vain  speculations,  or  occu¬ 
pied  itself  with  magic,  terrible  vows  and  sinister 
symbols,  and  the  operations  of  a  hateful  conspiracy 
against  the  Christian  religion.  It  was  the  father 
of  Sorcery,  Astrology,  Alchemy,  and  of  all  the  false 
sciences  of  the  Middle  Ages. 

But  here  L6mann  makes  an  important  reser¬ 
vation  : 

“This  science  cabalistic,  abstruse  on  its  specu¬ 
lative  side,  bad  and  wicked  on  its  practical  side, 
was  known  only  to  a  small  number  of  Israel.  Most 
honest  Jews,  occupied  with  their  daily  affairs,  and 
their  patriarchal  customs,  although  not  loving  the 
Saviour  of  the  World  and  His  Church,  had  no 
penchant  for,  nor  pleasure  in,  this  commerce  with 
the  Cabal  and  with  magic.” 

Owing  to  the  strict  watch  kept  by  the  Church 
and  by  the  Christian  monarchs,  it  was  difficult,  if 


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not  impossible,  to  establish  relations  between  the 
Hebrew  Cabal  and  the  secret  societies.  Moreover, 
an  Albigeois  or  a  Templar  would  have  been  too 
proud  to  call  a  Jew  his  companion  in  arms — and  in 
mysteries. 

But  with  the  eighteenth  century  things  changed 
for  the  worst.  The  various  secret  societies  con¬ 
centrated  in  Freemasonry  and  became  democratic 
and  universal.  The  Convention  of  Wilhelmsbaden 
was  their  Grand  Hall  of  Reunion. 

How  far  did  Judaism  participate?  L6mann 
answers  this  question.  In  1754,  he  says,  a  Por¬ 
tuguese  Jew,  named  Martinez  Paschalis,  had 
founded  in  France  a  sect,  based  on  the  Cabal,  under 
the  name  of  the  Order  of  Cohens  (a  Hebrew  word) 
or  Priests.  After  his  death  the  famous  Saint- 
Martin  had  developed  the  sect,  which  spread  from 
Paris  and  Lyons  as  far  as  Russia.  Its  sectaries 
were  then  called  Martinists,  or  French  Illumines. 

Such  was  the  preface  of  the  liaison  positive  be¬ 
tween  Judaism  and  the  secret  societies. 

It  was  a  disturbing  apparition — says  Lemann — 
this  union  between  this  perverted  Judaism  and 
these  degraded  societies.  For  the  one  seemed  to 
say  to  the  other:  “Tomorrow  you  will  be  with 
me,  my  plans  will  be  your  plans.” 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  47 


L6mann  proceeds  to  describe  ‘ 4  this  little  battal¬ 
ion  of  advanced  Jews” — Moses  Mendelssohn,  who 
took  the  delicate  r61e  of  conciliator  between  Jews 
and  Christians ;  Wilhelm  Dohm,  a  Prussian  official, 
who  utilized  the  arguments  of  Rousseau  for  the 
emancipation  of  the  Jews;  the  banker,  Cerfbeer, 
who  undertook  singlehanded  to  break  down  the 
Jewish  pale  of  Strasbourg — to  these  men  came 
Mirabeau,  the  Gentile  Revolutionary  and  Free¬ 
mason. 

In  the  work  on  Masonic  ritual  in  America, 
prepared  by  Albert  Pike,  an  interesting  passage 
in  a  supplementary  note  to  the  Fourteenth  Degree 
deplores  the  springing  up  of  44 a  dissident  Masonry, 
opposed  to  the  orthodox,”  to  which  schism  are 
ascribed  “the  greatest  calamities  of  the  French 
Revolution,”  and,  in  an  attempt  to  vindicate  the 
ideals  of  4 ‘orthodox”  Masonry,  the  passage  con¬ 
tinues  : 

“We  shall  perhaps  be  asked  how  if  Masonry 
is  so  sublime  and  so  holy,  it  could  have  been  pro¬ 
scribed  and  so  often  condemned  by  the  Church? 
We  have  replied  to  this  question  in  speaking  of 
the  schisms  and  profanations  of  Masonry.  .  .  . 
Masonry  has  not  only  been  profaned,  but  it  has 
even  served  as  a  veil  and  pretext  for  the  plottings 


48  THE  CAUSE  OP  WORLD  UNREST 


of  anarchy,  by  the  secret  influence  of  the  avengers 
of  Jacques  de  Molai.  .  .  .  The  Anarchists  have 
retaken  the  Rule,  the  Square  and  the  Mallet,  and 
written  on  them  ‘Liberty,  Equality,  Fraternity.* 
That  is  to  say,  Liberty  for  the  covetous  to  plunder, 
Equality  for  the  basest,  and  Fraternity  to  destroy.  ” 

Such  protestations  of  sorrow  from  “ orthodox’ * 
Freemasons  of  the  Red  Orders  may  or  may  not  be 
genuine.  We  do  not  take  it  upon  ourselves  to 
judge.  The  hope  of  a  more  profitable  inquiry  lies, 
we  fancy,  in  another  direction:  to  what  precisely 
does  the  above  passage  refer?  Like  all  Masonic 
writing,  it  is  enigmatical,  and  it  would  be  a  mistake 
to  give  it  a  too  narrow  and  literal  interpretation. 
Two  points  are  clear,  however.  The  “dissident” 
Masons  are  charged  with  using  Masonry  “as  a  veil 
and  pretext  for  the  plottings  of  anarchy,”  and 
these  plottings  are  held  in  real,  or  assumed,  ab¬ 
horrence  by  the  “orthodox”  Masons.  Let  us  see 
if  we  can  discover  the  historical  origin  of  this 
schism. 

In  the  year  1761,  a  certain  Stephen  Morin  was 
invested  by  the  Grand  Consistory  of  Sublime 
Princes  of  the  Royal  Secret  in  Paris  with  power  to 
carry  the  Rite  of  Perfection  to  America.  Among 
those  who  signed  the  paper  was  the  Duke  of 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  49 


Chartres,  afterwards  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  ‘  ‘  Philip 
Egalite,  ”  Grand  Master  both  of  the  Grand  Orient 
and  the  Templars,  and  Morin  himself  is  described 
as  a  Grand  Perfect  Elect  and  Past  Sublime  Master, 
etc.,  of  all  orders  of  Masonry.  Now  it  has  been 
stated  that  Morin  was  a  Jew,  but  the  Jewish  En¬ 
cyclopedia ,  in  its  article  on  Freemasonry,  says 
that  this  point  is  in  doubt.  What  is  certain  is  that 
when  Morin  arrived  in  America  he  gave  powers  to 
a  number  of  deputies  who  certainly  were  Jews. 
Thus,  for  example,  his  deputy  inspector,  Henry 
Francken,  appointed  Moses  M.  Hayes  at  Boston, 
and  Hayes  in  his  turn  made  Brother  Da  Costa 
deputy  inspector-general  for  South  Carolina, 
Solomon  Bush  deputy  for  Pennsylvania,  and 
B.  M.  Spitzer  deputy  for  Georgia.  In  1783,  Da 
Costa  established  in  Charleston  a  Sublime  Grand 
Lodge  of  Perfection ;  a  Council  of  Princes  of  J erusalem 
was  also  constituted,  and  also  a  Council  of  Knights 
Kadosch.  In  1786,  Charleston  received  the  Grand 
Constitution  from  Germany,  and  in  1801  a  Con¬ 
vention  was  held  to  form  a  Supreme  Council  of  the 
Thirty- third  Degree  of  the  Ancient  and  Accepted 
Scottish  Rite.  In  those  various  institutions,  such 
Jews  as  Meyers,  Spitzer,  John  Mitchell,  and 
Frederick  Dalcho  were  prominent,  and  although 


50  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


the  Jewish  Encyclopaedia,  alleges  that  the  Jews 
were  not  in  control  of  the  movement,  and  were  not 
in  the  highest  degrees,  it  is  quite  evident  from  the 
names  in  the  original  proceedings  that  in  the 
creation  of  these  Charleston  institutions  Jewish 
influence  was  either  supreme  or  very  strong. 

In  the  year  1896  there  appeared  in  Paris  a 
curious  publication  called  Le  Diable  au  XIXe 
Siecle.  It  was  an  attack  upon  Freemasonry,  and 
came  out  in  parts,  illustrated  with  grotesque  and 
repulsive  engravings.  The  name  on  the  title-page 
is  Dr.  Bataille,  but  it  is  stated  in  the  British 
Museum  Catalogue  that  the  real  authors  were 
Gabriel  Jogand-Pages  and  Charles  Hacks.  The 
book,  with  evident  knowledge  and  a  show  of 
authority,  set  out  to  trace  the  connection  between 
Freemasonry  and  revolutions,  but  its  sensational¬ 
ism  and  the  extremely  doubtful  character  of  some 
of  the  documents  produced  brought  it  into  dis¬ 
repute.  It  is  now  forgotten,  and  yet  it  contains  a 
good  deal  that  can  be  verified  from  other  sources, 
and  some  things  also  which  seem  to  be  verified  by 
recent  events.  In  particular  there  is  a  letter — or 
an  alleged  letter — said  to  have  been  written  by 
Albert  Pike,  the  “Sovereign  Pontiff  of  Universal 
Freemasonry,”  assisted  by  the  Ten  Ancients  of 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  51 


the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Supreme  Orient  at  Charles¬ 
ton,  to  “the  very  illustrious  brother”  Giuseppe 
Mazzini.  This  letter  is  dated  (in  Masonic  style) 
August  15,  1871,  and  sets  forth  an  anti-clerical 
policy  which  Mazzini  is  to  follow  in  Italy.  The 
measures  proposed,  including  secular  education, 
the  expulsion  of  the  religious  orders,  and  so  forth, 
need  not  detain  us.  What  is  to  our  purpose  occurs 
towards  the  end  of  the  letter,  on  page  605  (vol.  ii.). 
The  writer  explains  that  owing  to  the  working  out 
of  this  policy  the  Pope  may  be  driven  at  some 
future  time  out  of  Italy,  and  that  established 
religion  will  then  find  its  last  refuge  in  Russia. 
And  the  letter  proceeds : 

‘  ‘  That  is  why,  when  the  autocratic  Empire  of 
Russia  will  have  become  the  citadel  of  Papal 
Christianity  (adonaisme  papiste),  we  shall  unchain 
the  revolutionary  Nihilists  and  Atheists,  and  we 
shall  provoke  a  formidable  social  cataclysm,  which 
will  demonstrate  clearly  to  the  nations,  in  all  its 
horror,  the  effect  of  absolute  unbelief,  mother  of 
savagery  and  of  the  most  bloody  disorder.  Then, 
everywhere,  the  citizens,  obliged  to  defend  them¬ 
selves  against  the  mad  minority  of  revolutionaries, 
will  exterminate  these  destroyers  of  civilization, 
and  the  multitude,  disillusioned  of  Christianity, 
whose  deist  soul  will  up  to  that  moment  be  without 


52  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


compass,  thirsting  for  an  ideal,  but  not  knowing 
where  to  bestow  their  worship,  will  receive  the 
True  Light,  by  the  universal  manifestation  of  the 
pure  Luciferian  doctrine,  at  last  made  public,  a 
manifestation  which  will  arise  from  the  general 
movement  of  reaction  following  the  destruction  of 
Atheism  and  Christianity,  both  at  the  same  time 
vanquished  and  exterminated.” 

Now  this  letter  is  at  least  as  old  as  1896  (if  it  is 
a  forgery) ;  if  it  is  genuine,  it  is  as  old  as  1871.  It 
must  therefore  be  considered  remarkable,  whether 
as  a  forgery  or  as  a  genuine  document.  For  it 
predicts  what  has  happened  in  Russia,  and  it 
claims  for  its  authors  that  they  were  preparing  to 
bring  about  what  has  happened. 

If  we  compare  more  closely  the  words  of  the 
Masonic  letter  with  what  has  actually  happened 
in  Russia,  we  cannot  but  see  how  close  is  the 
correspondence  between  the  threats  and  the 
reality : 

The  Masonic  Letter.  Mr.  Churchill’s 

.  .  .  we  shall  unchain  the  Description. 

revolutionary  Nihilists  and  .  .  .  in  the  same  way  that  you 
atheists,  and  we  shall  provoke  might  send  a  phial  ...  to 
a  formidable  social  cataclysm  tear  to  pieces  every  institution 

.  .  .  horror  .  .  .  savagery . long  internal  terrors  .  .  . 

the  most  bloody  disorder.  menaced  by  famine  .  .  .  suffer¬ 

ings  more  fearful  than  modern 
records  hold. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  53 


Whatever  explanation  we  may  incline  to  give, 
we  must  at  least  allow  that  it  is  a  document  which 
is  very  difficult- to  explain.  And  there  is  this  much 
to  be  said  in  support  of  it — that  Mazzini  certainly 
was  connected  (as  we  shall  see)  with  the  birth 
of  that  movement  of  ‘‘Revolutionary  Nihilism” 
called  the  International. 

One  thing  is  certain:  the  motive  suggested  by 
Albert  Pike  for  the  destruction  of  Russia  is  not 
adequate.  The  cult  of  Adonaism,  whatever  that 
may  be,  and  the  hypothesis  that  the  Pope  might 
take  refuge  in  Russia,  would  never  have  driven  a 
body  of  conspirators  to  plot  the  destruction  of 
Russia.  But  if  the  Charleston  Lodge  was,  as  it  is 
generally  supposed  to  be,  very  largely  Jewish  in 
origin  and  control,  the  motive  becomes  intelligible; 
it  would  lie  in  the  hatred  of  the  political  Jew  both 
for  Russia  and  for  Christianity. 


CHAPTER  V 


The  intelligent  reader  may  have  surmised  from 
our  last  chapter  that  Albert  Pike’s  enigmatical 
passage  may  have  had  some  connection  with  the 
founding  of  the  International. 

The  history  of  that  remarkable  movement  takes 
us  back  to  the  agitation  which  preceded  the  stormy 
years  of  1848  and  1849.  Benjamin  Disraeli,  in  his 
Coningsby,  written  in  1844,  testified  beforehand 
that  “that  mighty  Revolution  which  is  at  this 
moment  preparing  in  Germany,  and  which  will  be, 
in  fact,  a  second  and  greater  Reformation,  and  of 
which  so  little  is  yet  known  in  England,  is  develop¬ 
ing  entirely  under  the  auspices  of  Jews.” 

And  Disraeli  was  at  least  so  far  right  that  the 
two  ablest  heads  in  that  movement  were  Jewish — 
Ferdinand  Lassalle  and  Karl  Marx. 

Now  as  to  these  two  men,  there  is  one  very  re¬ 
markable  coincidence  which  has  never  before  been 
noticed.  They  were  not  only  J ews ;  but  they  both, 
in  their  youth,  dedicated  their  lives  to  revenge. 

54 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  55 


Ferdinand  Lassalle  (or  Lassal)  was  bom  of 
Jewish  parents  at  Breslau  on  April  11,  1825.  In 
Breslau,  it  should  be  explained,  the  Jews  were  not 
emancipated  until  1843.  In  his  youth  he  kept  a 
diary,  and  that  diary  (for  the  years  1840-1)  was 
afterwards  published  by  Paul  Lindau. 

In  that  diary  (on  February  1,  1840)  Lassalle 
writes :  “I  think  I  am  one  of  the  best  Jews  in  exist¬ 
ence,  although  I  disregard  the  ceremonial  law. 
I  could,  like  the  Jew  in  Bulwer’s  Leila ,  risk  my  life 
to  deliver  the  Jews  from  their  present  crushing 
condition.”  He  speaks  of  his  childish  dream  “to 
make  the  Jews  armed — I  at  their  head — free.  ” 
And  on  July  30,  1840,  commenting  on  certain 
accusations  of  ritual  murder  then  being  made 
against  the  Jews,  he  says: 

“  .  .  .  the  time  will  soon  be  at  hand  when 
we,  in  very  deed,  will  help  ourselves  with  Christian 
blood.  Aide-toi  et  le  del  t'aidera.  The  dice  are 
ready:  it  only  depends  upon  the  player.” 

So  far  Lassalle.  Let  us  now  turn  to  Marx. 

In  his  Karl  Marx ,  His  Life  and  Work,  John 
Spargo  says  that  the  true  patronymic  of  the  family 
seems  to  have  been  Mordechai.  Mordechai,  a 
grandfather  of  Karl  Marx,  was  a  rabbi:  “one  of  a 


56  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


long  line  of  rabbis,  unbroken  from  the  sixteenth 
century  until  his  son  Heinrich,  father  of  Karl 
Marx,  adopted  law  instead  of  religion  for  a  career. 
On  his  mother’s  side,  also,  Karl  Marx  had  a  long 
line  of  rabbinical  ancestors.”  But  in  1824,  when 
Karl  was  six  years  old,  Heinrich  and  his  wife 
suddenly  embraced  Christianity,  and  they  with 
their  children  were  baptized.  Mr.  Spargo  tries  to 
make  out  that  Heinrich  forsook  Judaism  as  a 
matter  of  conviction,  but  we  can  hardly  credit 
such  an  explanation,  and  for  the  following  reasons: 
At  the  time  Heinrich  adopted  Christianity  the 
Jews  in  the  Rhine  Province  (the  Marxes  lived  in 
Trier)  were  subject  to  extortion  and  mild  persecu¬ 
tion  at  the  hands  of  the  Prussian  officials.  The 
Code  Napoleon  of  March  17,  1808,  had  been 
issued  provisionally  for  a  period  of  only  ten  years, 
and  fixed  the  status  of  the  Jews  in  the  Rhine 
Province;  and  Heinrich  Marx  was  a  convinced 
disciple  of  that  enemy  of  Christianity,  Voltaire. 
Moreover,  Liebknecht,  long  the  intimate  associate 
of  Karl  Marx,  and  himself  a  Jew  and  a  revolu¬ 
tionary,  says  in  his  Memoirs  that  the  acceptance 
of  Christianity  by  the  parents  was  compulsory, 
that  it  was  due  to  an  official  edict  by  the  Prussian 
Government  compelling  all  Jews  holding  official 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  57 


positions  or  engaged  in  the  learned  professions  to 
forgo  these  or  formally  renounce  Judaism.  The 
same  writer  says  that  the  boy  Karl  felt  keenly  this 
insult  to  his  race,  of  which  he  was  so  proud,  and 
that  “ his  whole  life  was  a  reply  and  a  revenge .” 

Spargo  and  other  biographers  of  Karl  Marx 
naturally  do  not  accept  this  explanation  of  their 
hero’s  activities,  and  do  their  best  to  discredit 
Liebknecht.  But  the  story,  despite  their  efforts, 
is,  as  we  have  seen,  historically  credible. 

Here  then  we  have  a  motive  hitherto  unsus¬ 
pected  by  those  Gentiles  who  follow  the  Red 
Banner — the  motive  of  destroying  the  Christian 
nations  in  revenge  for  the  wrongs  of  Judaism. 

But  to  proceed.  Karl  Marx  succeeded,  by 
September  28,  1864,  in  founding  the  International 
Working  Men’s  Association — inaugurated  at  St. 
Martin’s  Hall  in  London.  In  organizing  this 
movement,  Marx  had  considerable  trouble  with 
Giuseppe  Mazzini,  who  had  himself  organized  the 
Italian  Working  Men’s  Association,  and  desired  to 
control  the  movement.  Mazzini  prepared  a  draft 
address,  and  presented  it  to  the  General  Council 
of  the  International;  but  it  was  turned  down  in 
favour  of  another  written  by  Marx,  in  much  the 
same  terms  as  the  famous  Manifesto.  Mazzini 


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thereupon  withdrew  from  the  International,  and 
for  the  rest  of  his  life  was  a  bitter  opponent  of 
Marx. 

But  Karl  Marx  was  now  to  encounter  a  more 
formidable  opponent  than  Mazzini.  Michail 
Bakunin  has  been  called  the  Russian  Revolution¬ 
ary  Lion.  He  was,  in  fact,  a  Slav,  and  his  gospel 
was  a  curious  mixture  of  pan-Slavism  and  An¬ 
archy.  Part  of  his  plan  was  to  organize  a  great 
Slav  Power  to  include  all  the  Slav  elements  of 
Europe,  and  with  this  engine  he  designed  to 
destroy  not  only  the  Russian  Empire,  but  the 
German  and  Austrian  Empires  as  well. 

Now,  we  have  no  means  of  discovering  the  real 
motive  behind  these  ideas.  But  that  the  inspira¬ 
tion  was  at  least  as  much  that  of  race  as  of  class  is 
evident.  Bakunin  bitterly  denounced  Karl  Marx 
and  his  “clique  of  Jews”;  Karl  Marx  as  bitterly 
denounced  Bakunin’s  pan-Slavism. 

Can  it  be  that  the  fight  between  Socialist  and 
Anarchist  veiled  and  covered  another  fight  more 
fierce  and  instinctive — between  Slav  and  Jew? 
Certain  it  is  that  Karl  Marx’s  immediate  plans  did 
not  include  the  destruction  of  the  German  Empire. 
Marx,  despite  his  exile,  had  certain  connections 
with  the  Prussian  Government,  and  he  used  all  his 


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influence  in  the  International  movement  to  weaken 
France  and  strengthen  Germany  in  the  Franco- 
Prussian  War.  But  to  return  to  the  conflict. 

Bakunin  became  a  member  of  the  International 
by  joining  the  Branche  Romane  at  Geneva.  He 
immediately  began  his  campaign  to  secure  control 
of  the  entire  movement.  He  formed  within  the 
International  the  Alliance  de  la  Democratic  So - 
cialiste ,  with  a  programme  of  its  own  and  branches 
throughout  Europe.  When  Marx  got  wind  of  this 
plot,  he  got  the  General  Council  of  the  Inter¬ 
national  to  denounce  the  Alliance  as  a  scheme  for 
disrupting  the  International.  Bakunin  capitulated, 
dissolved  the  Alliance,  but  immediately  reor¬ 
ganized  its  branches  as  branches  of  the  Interna¬ 
tional!  Marx  said  nothing,  but  at  the  Basle 
Congress  of  1869  he  got  his  friend  Eccarius  to 
propose  that  the  Congress  should  give  the  General 
Council  the  power  to  expel  any  section  contraven¬ 
ing  the  principles  of  the  association.  To  every¬ 
body’s  astonishment,  Bakunin  supported  the 
motion.  He  thought  that  his  supporters  at  the 
Congress  outnumbered  those  of  Marx,  but  he  was 
wrong.  He  had  still  a  long  way  to  go  before  he 
finally  overthrew  his  rival. 

“Taking  advantage,”  says  Mr.  John  Spargo,  in 


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his  Life  of  Karl  Marx ,  “of  the  situation  in  Europe 
which  resulted  from  the  Fran  co-Prussian  War  and 
the  Paris  Commune,  Bakunin  went  on  building  up 
his  separate  organization,  the  Alliance,  especially 
in  Italy  and  Spain.  .  .  .  Many  of  those  who 
joined  the  Alliance  had  no  idea  that  they  were 
being  used  by  Bakunin  as  a  means  of  injuring  the 
International.”  The  struggle  came  to  a  head  in 
September,  1872,  when  the  International  Congress 
met  at  The  Hague.  Marx  had,  at  first,  not  in¬ 
tended  to  be  present,  but  Bakunin  had  let  it  be 
known  that  he  would  attend  for  the  purpose  of 
“exposing  Marx  and  his  clique.”  Marx  and 
Engels  accepted  the  challenge.  After  a  five  days’ 
word  battle  they  routed  Bakunin  and  prevented 
him  from  capturing  the  International,  but  to  save 
their  society  from  further  molestation,  they  de¬ 
cided  to  remove  their  headquarters  to  New  York. 
In  1876,  the  International  was  formally  dissolved 
at  a  meeting  held  in  Philadelphia. 

These  conflicts  remain  obscure;  but  they  at 
least  suggest  an  explanation  of  Albert  Pike’s 
enigmatical  passage :  ‘  ‘  Masonry  has  not  only  been 
profaned ;  but  it  has  served  as  a  veil  and  a  pretext 
for  the  plottings  of  Anarchy,  by  the  secret  influence 
of  the  avengers  of  Jacques  de  Molai.” 


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Hitherto  we  have  explored  a  dim  subterranean 
twilight  region  by  the  candlelight  of  hints  and 
surmises.  We  have  not  attempted  to  prove  any¬ 
thing  in  the  strict  or  even  in  the  historical  sense 
of  that  much  abused  word.  No,  we  have  merely 
attempted  to  indicate  the  probability  of  an  or¬ 
ganization  of  a  secret  order — a  “terrible  sect” — 
working  for  revolution  in  the  world,  and  the  other 
probability  that  this  sect  is  controlled  by  Hebraic 
conspirators — not  indeed  orthodox  Jews — who  as¬ 
pire  to  the  dominion  of  the  world. 

That  idea  is  not  too  vaguely  indicated  in  a  very 
remarkable  passage  of  a  book  from  which  we  have 
already  quoted,  the  Abbe  Joseph  Lemann’s  V En¬ 
tree  des  Israelites  dans  la  Societe  frangaise,  which 
was  published  in  1886.  There  is  a  plan,  says 
Lemann — a  plan  ‘  ‘d'enfer  ’  ’ — 

“to  disorganize  at  one  blow  Christian  society, 
and  the  beliefs  and  customs  of  the  Jews,  then  with 
this  double  organization  to  bring  about  a  state  of 
things  where,  religiously  speaking,  there  will  be 
neither  Christian  nor  Jew,  but  only  men  stripped 
of  divinity,  and  where ,  politically  speaking,  the 
Christian  will  become ,  if  not  the  slave,  at  least  the 
inferior  of  the  Jew,  the  master.  ...  At  the  hour 
in  which  we  hold  the  pen  we  see  this  plan  un- 


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rolling  itself  in  sombre  horizons  and  great  fune¬ 
real  lines.” 

Now  what  does  this  passage  suggest?  It  sug¬ 
gests  that  there  is  some  formidable  secret  organiza¬ 
tion,  some  terrible  sect,  controlled  and  directed  by 
Jews  for  the  destruction  of  our  present  social  order. 
It  suggests  also  that  these  Jews  are  not  orthodox 
Jews,  but  Jews  who  have  freed  themselves  from  the 
faith  of  their  ancestors.  And  it  suggests  further 
that  the  design  of  these  people  is  not  merely 
anarchy  but  to  create  a  world  domination  in  which 
these  infidel  Jews  are  masters,  and  in  which  the 
Christian  peoples  are,  if  not  their  slaves,  at  least 
their  inferiors. 

Here,  again,  however,  we  are  moving  in  a  world 
of  shadows,  hints,  and  surmises,  of  “sombre  hori¬ 
zons  and  funereal  lines.”  The  man  of  the  world, 
who  believes  in  nothing  except  what  he  finds 
proved,  and  who  refuses  to  consider  anything  but 
a  clear  and  precise  statement,  may  be  inclined  to 
dismiss  this  passage  as  mere  moonshine. 

But  now  we  are  to  emerge  suddenly  from 
shadows  and  moonshine  into  a  fierce  blaze  of  light. 
For  we  have  now  to  consider  a  document  which 
professes  to  set  forth  fully  and  plainly  the  plan  of 


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campaign  of  this  “formidable  sect”  for  the  de¬ 
struction  of  the  social  order.  Let  us  now  consider 
what  this  document  is. 

In  the  year  1903  a  Russian,  Serge  Nilus,  pub¬ 
lished  a  book  entitled  The  Great  in  Little .  The 
second  edition,  which  was  published  at  Tsarskoe 
Selo  in  1905,  had  an  additional  chapter,  the  twelfth, 
under  the  heading  “Anti-Christ  as  a  Near  Political 
Possibility.”  This  chapter  consisted  of  some 
twenty  pages  of  introduction  followed  by  the  text 
of  twenty-four  “Protocols  of  Meetings  of  the 
Learned  Elders  of  Zion,”  and  the  book  ends  with 
some  twenty  pages  of  commentaries  on  these  pro¬ 
tocols  by  Nilus. 

Directly  after  the  protocols,  comes  a  statement 
by  Nilus  that  they  are  “signed  by  representatives 
of  Zion  of  the  thirty-third  degree.  These  protocols 
were  secretly  extracted  (or  were  stolen)  from  a 
whole  volume  of  protocols.  All  this  was  got  by 
my  correspondent  out  of  the  secret  depositories  of 
the  Head  Chancellery  of  Zion.  This  Chancellery 
is  at  present  on  French  territory.”  An  English 
translation  of  these  protocols  has  now  been  pub¬ 
lished  (Eyre  and  Spottiswoode,  2s.  6d.  net).  This 
translation,  which  we  have  compared  with  the 
Russian  1905  edition  in  the  British  Museum,  is 


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substantially  correct,  but  in  a  work  of  such  impor¬ 
tance  we  have  preferred  to  use  our  own  translation. 

Now  the  contention  of  Nilus  is  that  these  proto¬ 
cols  are  the  plans  of  a  secret  organization  or  govern¬ 
ment  of  Jewry  for  the  return  of  this  organization 
or  government  to  Zion,  and  for  the  government  of 
the  whole  world  by  a  Jewish  dispensation.  This 
plan,  Nilus  asserts,  is  not  of  yesterday  but  has  been 
developed  through  many  ages.  What  is  usually 
understood  by  the  Zionist  movement,  initiated  at 
Basle  in  1897,  was  not,  it  is  said,  a  modern  de¬ 
velopment  of  Jewry,  but  an  indiscreet  revelation 
of  part  of  a  plan  long  entertained.  For  that  reason 
— i.e .,  that  the  Zionist  movement  was  a  revelation 
to  the  world  of  secret  designs — it  was  not  regarded 
with  favour  by  the  real  leaders  nor  by  certain  great 
Jewish  capitalists.  That  indiscretion  was  com¬ 
mitted  by  the  impetuous  Dr.  Theodor  Hertzl,  a 
Vienna  journalist  and  dramatic  critic,  who  ener¬ 
getically  brought  forward  to  a  world-wide  public 
certain  age-old  plans  of  these  secret  leaders  of 
Jewry. 

The  symbolism  of  the  snake,  says  Nilus,  typifies 
a  coiling  and  encircling  movement  by  which  “all 
Europe,  and  through  Europe  all  the  rest  of  the 
world,  by  the  use  of  all  forms  of  force,  by  wars  of 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  65 


conquest,  and  by  economic  pressure,  will  be  sub¬ 
jected  to  the  influence  of  Jewry.”  “All  the 
States,  ”  says  Nilus,  “  passed  over  by  the  symbolic 
snake,  not  excluding  Germany,  with  her  apparent 
might,  are  in  reality  undermined  by  constitutional 
Liberalism  and  economic  derangement.  On  the 
economic  side,  England  and  Germany  are  still 
spared,  but  only  until  such  time  as  the  irrevocable 
conquest  of  Russia,  towards  which  all  energies  are 
now  concentrated,  has  been  accomplished.  .  .  . 
Constantinople  is  the  eighth  and  last  stage  towards 
Jerusalem.” 

We  have  said  that  this  document  flashes  a  blaze 
of  light,  and  so  it  does,  but  whether  this  document 
is  genuine  or  not,  whether  the  blaze  of  light  is 
true  or  false,  can  only  be  judged  by  internal  evi¬ 
dence  and  probabilities.  We  may  say  at  once  that 
Nilus  advances  nothing  in  the  nature  of  real 
evidence  to  prove  the  document,  and  that  his 
account  of  how  it  came  into  his  hands  consists  of 
assertion  only,  without  evidence  to  support  it. 
We  can  only  say  that  if  the  document  is  not 
genuine  it  is  a  very  extraordinary  forgery,  since  it 
predicts  with  certainty  not  only  the  fact  but  the 
manner  and  mechanism  of  a  great  revolution  before 
the  event.  Moreover,  it  says  before  the  event  that 


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this  destruction  will  be  carried  out  by  a  Jewish 
organization — a  formidable  sect — and  such  evi¬ 
dence  as  we  have  of  the  Russian  Revolution 
confirms  this  prediction. 

Thus,  for  example,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Malone, 
the  Member  of  Parliament  who  went  on  a  friendly 
visit  to  the  Bolsheviks  and  returned  in  the  latter 
part  of  1919  to  England,  stated  in  the  House  of 
Commons  on  November  5th:  “It  is  said  openly 
that  the  Soviet  Government  is  a  Government  of 
the  Jews.  Why,  there  are  not  in  Lenin’s  Cabinet 
as  many  Jews  or  crypto- Jews  as  there  are  in  any 
other  Cabinet  in  Europe.  There  is  only  one — 
Trotsky.  Of  course ,  there  are  Jews  in  control  in 
Russia.  There  are  Jews  behind  the  commissars,  and 
there  is  no  doubt  that  in  Russia  at  this  time  the 
Jews  are  not  subject  to  those  horrible  persecutions 
which  they  have  endured  for  countless  ages.” 
And  this  is  supported  by  numerous  Christian 
refugees  from  Russia,  who  all  assert  that  the  chief 
actors  in  the  Revolution  are  Jewish,  and  that  the 
Jewish  bourgeoisie  have  been  spared  by  the 
revolutionaries. 

Here,  then,  are  two  very  remarkable  pieces  of 
corroborative  evidence:  first,  that  the  document 
was  published  before  the  event  which  it  predicted, 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  67 

and,  second,  that  those  whom  it  states  to  be  the 
conspirators  are  afterwards  found  to  be  the  prin¬ 
cipal  agents  of  the  Revolution.  We  shall  not  begin 
the  examination  of  the  document  itself  at  this 
stage  of  our  inquiry,  but  we  shall  content  our¬ 
selves  merely  with  a  quotation  from  Disraeli’s 

m* 

novel  Coningsby ,  which  is  well  worth  reading  over 
again  in  the  light  of  recent  happenings.  Those  who 
know  the  novel  will  remember  the  mysterious 
character  Sidonia,  who  describes  himself  as  a 
Spanish  Jew  and  an  international  power.  He  tells 
Coningsby  how  his  ancestors  had  settled  in  Aragon 
before  the  Moorish  invasion,  how  they  had  been 
persecuted  and  had  adopted  the  veil  of  Chris¬ 
tianity,  remaining  Jews  in  secret,  how  they  had 
betrayed  Spain  to  the  Moors,  and  how  they  had 
again  been  persecuted  when  Ferdinand  and  Isa¬ 
bella  re-established  Christian  domination,  how 
they  had  again  disguised  themselves  as  Christians, 
but  how  as  soon  as  their  descendants  had  reached 
England,  he  had  set  up  the  Mosaic  altar.  He  refers 
to  his  tutor,  Rebello — “a  Jesuit  before  the  Revolu¬ 
tion,  since  then  an  exiled  Liberal  leader,  now  a 
member  of  the  Spanish  Cortes;  Rebello  was  always 
a  Jew.”  He  refers  also  to  “the  subterranean 
agency  of  which  the  world  in  general  knows  so 


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little,  but  which  exercises  so  great  an  influence  on 
public  events.”  And  he  proceeds,  “You  never 
observe  a  great  intellectual  movement  in  Europe 
in  which  the  Jews  do  not  greatly  participate.  The 
first  Jesuits  were  Jews;  that  mysterious  Russian 
diplomacy  which  so  alarms  Western  Europe  is 
organized  and  practically  carried  on  by  Jews;  that 
mighty  Revolution  which  is  at  this  moment  pre¬ 
paring  in  Germany,  and  which  will  be  in  fact  a 
second  and  greater  Reformation,  and  of  which  so 
little  is  yet  known  in  England,  is  developing  en¬ 
tirely  under  the  auspices  of  Jews.” 


CHAPTER  VI 


We  have  given  some  account  of  the  extraordinary 
document  printed  by  the  Russian  Nilus  in  the  year 
1905  as  an  appendix  to  his  book.  That  document 
consists  of  twenty-four  protocols,  running  to  about 
thirty  thousand  words.  In  form,  as  we  have  said, 
it  takes  the  shape  of  a  series  of  lectures  “at  the 
meetings  of  the  learned  elders  of  Zion.”  The 
lecturer  speaks  sometimes  as  if  the  initiates  whom 
he  was  addressing  were  the  secret  government  of 
the  Jews  and  sometimes  as  if  they  were  the  heads 
of  a  Jewish  Masonic  organization.  The  general 
object  of  the  conspiracy  which  the  protocols  dis¬ 
cussed  is  the  government  of  the  world  by  a  king  of 
the  blood  of  David.  How  that  end  is  to  be  secured 
we  shall  see  as  we  proceed,  and  we  gather  that 
Masonry  is  used  by  the  organization  as  a  cloak  and 
a  veil.  Thus,  for  example,  in  Protocol  4  we  find 
the  passage: 

“Who  and  what  is  in  a  position  to  overthrow 
an  invisible  force?  And  this  is  precisely  what  our 

69 


70  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


force  is.  Exterior  Masonry  blindly  serves  as  a 
screen  for  us  and  our  objects,  but  the  plan  of 
action  of  our  force,  even  its  very  abiding-place, 
remain  for  the  whole  people  an  unknown  mystery.’ * 

But  here  we  come  to  a  very  clear  distinction. 
The  speaker  constantly  refers  with  infinite  con¬ 
tempt  to  what  he  calls  the  goyim  or  Gentiles,  the 
Christian  and  non- Jewish  peoples  of  the  world; 
and  he  mentions  an  inner  or  Jewish  Masonry,  the 
true  governing  power,  and  an  outer  or  Gentile 
Masonry,  which  blindly  follows  the  lead  of  a 
direction  it  does  not  suspect.  Thus,  for  example, 
in  Protocol  1 1 : 

“For  what  purpose,  then,  have  we  invented  this 
whole  policy  and  insinuated  it  into  the  minds  of 
the  goyim  (Gentiles)  without  giving  them  any 
chance  to  examine  its  underlying  meaning?  For 
what,  indeed,  if  not  to  obtain  in  a  roundabout  way 
what  is  for  our  scattered  tribes  unattainable  by  a 
direct  road?  It  is  this  which  has  served  as  the 
basis  for  our  organization  of  secret  Masonry,  which 
is  unknown  to,  and  has  aims  which  are  not  even  so 
much  as  suspected  by,  these  goyim- cattle,  at¬ 
tracted  by  us  into  the  4 show’  army  of  Masonic 
Lodges  in  order  to  throw  dust  into  the  eyes  of  their 
fellows.” 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  71 


When  at  last  the  final  Revolution  comes, 
Masonry  is  to  be  brought  to  an  end  as  having 
served  its  purpose.  “Those  Gentile  Masons  who 
know  too  much”  are  either  to  be  banished  or  kept 
under  constant  fear  of  exile.  In  the  meantime, 
Masonry  is  to  be  organized  and  directed  as  a 
weapon  against  Church  and  State  in  accordance 
with  their  plan. 

This  plan  is  not  new.  It  is  followed  from  genera¬ 
tion  to  generation.  Thus,  for  example,  in  Protocol 
1  we  find : 

“Before  us  is  a  plan  in  which  is  laid  down 
strategically  the  line  from  which  we  cannot  deviate 
without  running  the  risk  of  seeing  the  labour  of 
many  centuries  brought  to  nought.” 

In  pursuance  of  this  plan  they  brought  about 
the  French  Revolution.  “Far  back  in  ancient 
times,”  says  the  first  protocol,  “we  were  the  first 
to  cry  among  the  masses  of  the  people  the  words 
'Liberty,  Equality,  Fraternity.’” 

“In  all  corners  of  the  earth,  the  words  'Liberty, 
Equality,  Fraternity  ’  brought  to  our  ranks,  thanks 
to  our  blind  agents,  whole  legions  who  bore  our 
banners  with  enthusiasm.  And  all  the  time  these 
yrords  were  cankerworms  at  work  boring  into  the 


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well-being  of  the  goyim ,  putting  an  end  every¬ 
where  to  peace,  quiet,  solidarity,  and  destroying 
all  the  foundations  of  the  goyim  States.  As  you 
will  see  later,  this  helped  us  to  our  triumph :  it  gave 
us  the  possibility,  among  other  things  of  getting 
into  our  hands  the  master  card — the  destruction  of 
the  privileges,  or,  in  other  words,  of  the  very  exist¬ 
ence  of  the  aristocracy  of  the  goyim ,  that  class 
which  was  the  only  defence  peoples  and  countries 
had  against  us.  On  the  ruins  of  the  natural  and 
genealogical  aristocracy  of  the  goyim ,  we  have  set 
up  the  aristocracy  of  our  educated  class,  headed  by 
the  aristocracy  of  money.  The  qualifications  for 
this  aristocracy  we  have  established  in  wealth, 
which  is  dependent  upon  us,  and  in  knowledge,  for 
which  our  learned  elders  provide  the  motive  force.” 

And,  again,  we  find  in  Protocol  3  a  definite  claim : 

“  Remember  the  French  Revolution,  to  which  it 
was  we  who  gave  the  name  of  ‘  Great.  ’  The  secrets 
of  its  preparation  are  well  known  to  us,  for  it  was 
wholly  the  work  of  our  hands.” 

But  not  only  does  the  speaker  claim  for  his 
organization  the  authorship  of  the  French  Revo¬ 
lution.  He  states  also  that  the  liberal  and  consti¬ 
tutional  movements  which  have  agitated  Europe 
and  have  weakened  the  authority  of  government 


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have  been  set  going  in  the  same  way  and  for  the 
same  purpose. 

The  word  ‘  Liberty  ’  brings  out  the  communities 
of  men  to  fight  against  every  kind  of  force,  against 
every  kind  of  authority,  even  against  God  and  the 
laws  of  nature.  For  this  reason  we,  when  we  come 
into  our  kingdom,  shall  have  to  erase  this  word 
from  the  lexicon  of  life  as  implying  a  principle  of 
brute  force  which  turned  mobs  into  blood-thirsty 
beasts.” 

He  boasts  that  by  means  of  Liberalism  and 
Constitutionalism  they  had  destroyed  the  power 
of  Kings,  and  especially  of  the  aristocracy,  to 
protect  the  people.  ‘  ‘  The  people,  ’ ’  he  says,  ‘  ‘  under 
our  guidance,  have  annihilated  the  aristocracy, 
who  were  their  one  and  only  defence  and  foster- 
mother,  for  the  advantage  of  the  aristocracy  is 
inseparably  bound  up  with  the  well-being  of  the 
people.”  The  result  of  the  destruction  of  the  aris¬ 
tocracy  is  that  the  people  have  fallen  into  the  grip 
of  merciless  money-getting  scoundrels  who  have 
laid  a  pitiless  yoke  upon  the  neck  of  the  workers. 

Having  effected  so  much  by  Liberalism  they 
then  come  forward  as  ‘ ‘ saviours  of  the  worker,” 
and  propose  to  the  workers  that  they  should  ‘  ‘  enter 
the  ranks  of  our  fighting  forces — Socialists,  An- 


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archists,  Communists,  to  whom  we  always  give 
support.” 

Besides  these  secret  powers,  the  organization 
has  another  power,  the  power  of  gold.  “In  our 
hands  is  the  greatest  power  of  our  day — gold.  In 
two  days  we  can  procure  from  our  storehouses  any 
quantity  we  please.” 

With  command  of  capital  the  organization  has 
the  power  to  create  financial  and  industrial  crises, 
and  as  a  means  of  bringing  off  the  last  and  greatest 
revolution  there  is  to  be  a  great  financial  crisis 
which  will  reduce  the  workers  to  the  verge  of 
starvation  and  make  them  ripe  for  the  most  des¬ 
perate  acts. 

“We  shall  raise  the  rate  of  wages,  which,  how¬ 
ever,  will  not  bring  any  advantage  to  the  workers, 
for  at  the  same  time  we  shall  produce  a  rise  in 
prices  of  the  first  necessaries  of  life.” 

“In  order  that  the  true  meaning  of  things  may 
not  strike  the  Gentiles  before  the  proper  time,  we 
shall  mask  it  under  an  alleged  ardent  desire  to 
serve  the  working  classes,  and  the  great  principles 
of  political  economy  about  which  our  economic 
theorists  are  carrying  on  an  energetic  propaganda.” 

We  have  given  a  general  account  of  these  proto¬ 
cols  published  by  Nilus  in  1905.  Let  us  now  ex- 


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amine  them  more  in  detail.  The  first  protocol 
begins,  as  it  were,  in  the  middle  of  a  sentence : 

.  .  Putting  aside  fine  phrases,  we  shall  speak 
of  the  significance  of  each  thought :  by  comparisons 
and  deductions  we  shall  throw  light  upon  surround¬ 
ing  facts.  ...  It  must  be  noted  that  men  with 
bad  instincts  are  more  in  number  than  the  good, 
and  therefore  the  best  results  in  governing  them 
are  attained  by  violence  and  terror,  and  not  by 
academic  discussions.” 

After  the  assertion  that  every  man  aims  at 
power  and  most  would  sacrifice  the  general  good 
for  their  own  welfare,  there  follows  the  statement : 

“Political  freedom  is  an  idea  but  not  a  fact. 
This  idea  one  must  know  how  to  use  as  a  bait  to 
attract  the  masses  of  the  people  so  as  to  crush 
those  in  authority.  This  task  is  the  easier  if  the 
opponent  himself  has  been  infected  with  the  idea 
of  Liberty  or  Liberalism,  and  for  the  sake  of  an 
idea  is  willing  to  yield  some  of  his  power.  It  is 
precisely  here  that  the  triumph  of  our  theory 
appears:  the  slackened  reins  of  government  are 
immediately,  by  the  law  of  life,  caught  up  and 
gathered  together  by  a  new  hand,  because  the 
blind  might  of  the  nation  cannot  for  a  single  day 
exist  without  guidance  and  the  new  authority 


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merely  fits  into  the  place  of  the  old  already  weak¬ 
ened  by  Liberalism.” 

The  lecturer  points  out  that  this  doctrine  is  no 
more  immoral  than  the  doctrine  of  foreign  war, 
that  “the  political  has  nothing  in  common  with 
the  moral,”  that  frankness  and  honesty  are  vices 
in  politics,  “for  they  bring  down  rulers  from  their 
thrones  more  certainly  than  the  most  powerful 
enemy,  ”  and  that  right  lies  in  force. 

‘  ‘  In  any  state  in  which  there  is  a  bad  organiza¬ 
tion  of  authority,  an  impersonality  of  laws  and  of 
rulers  who  have  lost  their  personality  amid  the 
flood  of  rights  that  are  multiplying  out  of  Liberal¬ 
ism  I  find  a  new  right — to  attack  by  the  right  of 
the  strong  and  to  scatter  to  the  winds  all  existing 
forces  of  order  and  regulation,  to  reconstruct  all 
institutions,  and  to  become  the  sovereign  lord  of 
those  who  have  left  to  us  the  rights  of  their  power 
by  laying  them  down  voluntarily  in  their  Liberal¬ 
ism.  Our  power  in  the  present  tottering  of  all 
forms  of  power  will  be  more  invincible  than  any 
other,  because  it  will  remain  invisible  until  the 
moment  when  it  has  gained  such  strength  that  no 
cunning  can  any  longer  undermine  it.” 

There  follows  a  justification  of  “the  programme 
of  violence  and  make-believe,”  and  of  the  use  of 


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“bribery,  deceit,  and  treachery”  to  attain  good 
ends.  We  read  of  the  absurdity  of  the  cry  of 
Equality,  since  “Nature  herself  has  established 
inequality  of  minds,  of  characters,  and  of  capacities, 
just  as  immutably  as  she  has  established  subordi¬ 
nation  to  her  laws.” 

The  true  strength  of  the  dynastic  rule,  it  is 
argued,  was  ‘  ‘  that  the  father  passed  on  to  the  son 
a  knowledge  of  the  course  of  political  affairs  in  such 
wise  that  none  should  know  it  but  members  of  the 
dynasty,  and  none  could  betray  it  to  the  governed.” 
This  secret  “of  the  political”  was  lost,  and  this 
loss  “aided  the  success  of  our  cause.” 

“The  abstraction  of  liberty  has  enabled  us  to 
persuade  the  mob  in  all  countries  that  their  gov¬ 
ernment  is  nothing  but  a  steward  of  the  people, 
who  are  the  owners  of  the  country,  and  that  the 
steward  may  be  replaced  like  a  worn-out  glove.  ” 

“It  is  this  possibility  of  replacing  the  repre¬ 
sentatives  of  the  people  which  has  placed  them  at 
our  disposal,  and,  as  it  were,  given  us  the  power  of 
appointment.” 

Such  is  the  cynical  philosophy  propounded  in 
the  first  protocol.  The  second  protocol  begins 
with  a  reference  to  the  value  of  economic  wars, 
which  place  the  Gentiles  in  the  conspirators’ 


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hands.  It  speaks  also  of  their  international  agents 
with  their  “millions  of  eyes  ever  on  the  watch”; 
it  boasts  that  “we  shall  choose  from  among  the 
public  administrators  with  strict  regard  to  their 
capacities  for  servile  obedience”;  that  these  per¬ 
sons  will  not  be  trained  in  the  arts  of  government, 
and  that  therefore  they  will  easily  become  “pawns 
in  our  game — in  the  hands  of  our  men  of  learning 
and  genius,  bred  and  reared  from  early  childhood 
to  rule  the  affairs  of  the  whole  world.” 

The  second  protocol  ends  with  the  boast  that 
“the  Press  has  fallen  into  our  hands”;  and  again, 
“through  the  Press  we  have  gained  a  power  to 
influence  while  remaining  ourselves  in  the  shade.” 

Thus  these  two  opening  protocols  express  a 
philosophy  of  government  more  cynical  than 
Machiavelli’s,  and  they  make  also  the  disturbing 
claim  that  Liberalism  and  Modernism,  if  not 
created  by  the  Jews,  have  been  used  by  them  as 
the  means  of  misleading  Christian  nations  and 
destroying  their  power  of  self-defence. 


CHAPTER  VII 

The  third  protocol  opens  with  these  very  remark¬ 
able  words:  “Today  I  may  tell  you  that  our  goal 
is  now  only  a  few  steps  off.  There  remains  a  small 
space  to  cross,  and  the  long  path  we  have  trodden 
is  ready  to  close  in  circle  of  the  Snake  by  which  we 
symbolize  our  people.  When  this  ring  closes  all  the 
States  of  Europe  will  be  locked  in  its  coils  as  in  a 
vice. 

“The  constitutional  scales  of  these  days  will 
shortly  break  down,  for  we  have  given  them  a 
certain  lack  of  accurate  balance  in  order  that  they 
may  oscillate  incessantly  until  they  wear  through 
the  pivot  on  which  they  turn.  The  goyim  believe 
that  they  have  made  them  sufficiently  strong,  and 
keep  on  expecting  that  the  scales  will  come  into 
equilibrium.  But  the  pivot,  the  kings  on  their 
thrones,  are  hemmed  in  by  their  representatives, 
who  play  the  fool,  distraught  with  their  own  un¬ 
controlled  and  irresponsible  power.  This  power 
they  owe  to  the  terror  which  has  breathed  into  the 
palaces.  ...  We  have  made  a  gulf  between  the 

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far-seeing  Sovereign  Power  and  the  blind  force  of 
the  people,  so  that  both  have  lost  all  meaning,  for, 
like  the  blind  man  and  the  stick,  both  are  powerless 
apart.” 

After  boasting  of  the  means  by  which  the  “elders 
of  Zion  ”  have  instilled  class  hatred  into  the  people, 
the  protocol  continues : 

“This  hatred  will  be  still  further  magnified  by 
the  effect  of  an  economic  crisis,  which  will  stop 
dealings  on  the  exchanges  and  bring  industry  to  a 
standstill.  We  shall  create  by  all  the  secret  sub¬ 
terranean  methods  open  to  us,  and  with  the  aid  of 
gold,  which  is  all  in  our  hands,  a  universal  economic 
crisis,  whereby  we  shall  throw  upon  the  streets 
whole  mobs  of  workers  simultaneously  in  all  the 
countries  of  Europe.  These  mobs  will  rush  with 
delight  and  shed  the  blood  of  those  whom,  in  the 
simplicity  of  their  ignorance,  they  have  envied 
from  their  cradles,  and  whose  property  they  will 
then  be  able  to  loot. 

4  ‘  Ours  they  will  not  touch,  because  the  moment 
of  attack  will  be  known  to  us,  and  we  shall  take 
measures  to  protect  our  own.” 

Such,  then,  is  the  plan  of  the  “elders  of  Zion,” 
and  in  the  succeeding  protocols  they  elaborate  the 
means  by  which  it  is  to  be  brought  about.  Thus, 
for  example,  by  attack  upon  religion : 


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‘‘It  is  indispensable  for  us  to  undermine  all 
faith,  tear  out  of  the  minds  of  the  goyim  the  very 
principle  of  Godhead  and  the  Spirit,  and  to  put  in 
its  place  arithmetical  calculations  and  material 
needs.” 

There  are  several  passages  which  seem  to  suggest 
the  League  of  Nations,  as,  for  example: 

‘  ‘  By  all  these  means  we  shall  so  wear  down  the 
goyim  that  they  will  be  compelled  to  offer  us  inter¬ 
national  power  of  such  a  nature  as  will  enable  us 
without  any  violence  gradually  to  absorb  all  the 
great  forces  of  the  world  and  to  form  a  super- 
government.  In  place  of  the  rulers  of  today  we 
shall  set  up  a  bogey  which  will  be  called  the  Super- 
Government  Administration.  Its  tentacles  will 
reach  out  in  all  directions  and  its  organization  will 
be  so  colossal  as  to  subdue  all  the  nations  of  the 
world.” 

Education,  politics,  law,  the  theatre,  are  all 
discussed  as  means  of  creating  revolutions,  and 
throughout  there  breathes  a  spirit  of  almost  in¬ 
describable  hate  for  the  Christian  nations,  as,  for 
example,  in  such  a  sentence  as  this,  from  Protocol 
ii  : — “The  goyim  are  a  flock  of  sheep  and  we  are 
their  wolves.” 

But  it  is  only  fair  to  say  of  this  extraordinary 
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document  that  while  half  of  it  is  devoted  to  the 
destruction  of  the  present  order,  the  latter  half  of 
the  document  gives  an  outline  of  a  new  order,  an 
order  of  world  government  in  the  hands  of  the 
sect. 

These  “elders  of  Zion”  are  by  no  means  anar¬ 
chists.  On  the  contrary,  they  make  it  quite  clear 
that  they  only  use  anarchy  as  a  means  to  an  end, 
and  that  they  thoroughly  believe  in  the  natural 
divisions  of  society  into  classes  and  in  the  benefits 
of  a  strong  Government.  The  Government  is  not 
to  be  a  free  Government — they  propose,  indeed,  to 
erase  the  very  word  of  liberty  from  the  languages 
of  the  world — nor  will  it  permit  equality  of  races. 
The  Gentile  “cattle”  are  to  work  for  their  Jewish 
masters  without  any  hope  of  liberation.  But  it  is 
to  be  a  just  and  orderly  Government.  Great  atten¬ 
tion  is  given  to  the  reform  of  the  law  and  of  the 
judiciary.  The  King  is  to  be  very  carefully  chosen 
from  among  the  descendants  of  the  Royal  House  of 
David.  If  he  shows  weakness  or  vice  he  is  to  be 
replaced  by  another,  and  everything  is  to  be  done 
to  make  him  popular  with  the  people.  Of  the 
value  of  prestige  the  lecturer  makes  a  special  study, 
and  there  are  detailed  instructions  as  to  the  use  of 
the  Press  and  the  organization  of  the  police. 


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The  system  of  education  is  calculated  to  wipe 
out  of  the  minds  of  the  goyim  any  recollections  of 
their  former  state.  In  religion  atheism  is  only  to 
be  tolerated  during  the  time  of  revolution ;  when  it 
has  done  its  work,  the  Jewish  religion  is  to  be  es¬ 
tablished  as  the  universal  faith.  By  such  means 
the  speaker  believes  that  they  will  be  able  to  pro¬ 
duce  a  tranquil  world : 

“The  errors  of  the  Gentile  Governments  will 
be  depicted  by  us  in  the  most  vivid  hues.  We  shall 
implant  such  an  abhorrence  of  them  that  the 
peoples  will  prefer  tranquillity  in  a  state  of  serfdom 
to  those  rights  of  vaunted  freedom  which  have 
tortured  humanity  and  exhausted  the  very  sources 
of  human  existence.  .  .  .  Useless  changes  of 
forms  of  government  to  which  we  instigated  the 
goyim  when  we  were  undermining  their  State 
structures  will  have  so  wearied  the  peoples  by  that 
time  that  they  will  prefer  to  suffer  anything  under 
us  rather  than  run  the  risk  of  enduring  again 
all  the  agitations  and  miseries  they  have  gone 
through.”  (Protocol  No.  14.) 

The  final  protocols  become  ecstatic  in  their 
enthusiasm  for  the  new  order.  Before  it  comes 
they  are  to  sweep  away  all  those  forces  of  anarchy 
and  revolutionary  Masonry  by  which  they  have 


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prepared  its  entrance,  so  that  in  its  path  be  left 
“no  knot,  no  splinter.’'  And  again: 

“Then  will  it  be  possible  for  us  to  say  to  the 
peoples  of  the  world :  Give  thanks  to  God  and  bow 
the  knee  before  him  who  bears  on  his  front  the  seal 
of  the  predestination  of  man,  to  whom  God  him¬ 
self  has  led  His  star  that  none  other  except  him 
might  free  us  from  all  the  before-mentioned  forces 
and  evils.” 

The  following  internal  evidence  is  available  as 
to  the  authenticity  of  the  protocols.  We  know 
about  Serge  Nilus,  who  gave  them  to  the  world, 
little  more  than  that  he  was  a  Russian  of  good 
family  and  repute.  He  may  be  alive  or  he  may  be 
dead.  As  to  his  comments  on  the  protocols  and 
his  account  of  how  he  came  to  print  them,  we  have 
no  evidence  beyond  his  own  word  that  he  is  telling 
the  truth. 

There  is,  however,  one  undoubted  fact  upon 
which  to  build,  and  that  is  the  date  at  which  these 
protocols  were  given  to  the  world.  Fortunately 
that  is  set  beyond  doubt  by  the  existence  of  a  copy 
of  the  1905  edition  in  the  British  Museum. 

From  what  we  can  gather  from  Russians  who 
have  sought  refuge  in  this  country,  the  book  made 


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little  or  no  impression  when  it  appeared.  Some  of 
them  allege  that  the  whole  edition  except  a  few 
copies  was  bought  up  by  the  Russian  Jews,  but  it  is, 
of  course,  impossible  to  prove  such  an  allegation. 
It  is  certain  that  the  warning  contained  in  these 
protocols  was  disregarded — their  significance  was 
not  suspected.  It  was  only  when  the  Revolution 
fulfilled  them  in  spirit  and  in  letter  that  their 
importance  was  realized.  And  now  they  are  in  the 
mouth  of  every  Russian.  They  all  believe  them 
genuine,  by  evidence  which  they  at  least  regard  as 
unassailable.  “The  proof  of  the  pudding  lies  in 
the  eating.” 

As  to  the  date  on  which  the  protocols  were  de¬ 
livered  we  have  the  assertion  of  Nilus  that  they 
were  known  to  the  Zionist  Congress  at  Basle. 
That  Congress  brings  us  to  the  date  1897.  But 
there  is  no  evidence  in  the  document  that  its 
authors  have  any  concern  with  the  Zionist  move¬ 
ment  ;  indeed,  their  project  of  a  universal  domina¬ 
tion  might  appear  to  render  Zionism  unnecessary. 

From  one  bombastic  reference  to  the  possibility 
of  blowing  up  the  capitals  of  Europe  by  laying 
mines  in  the  underground  railways  we  see  that  the 
document  is,  at  all  events,  modern.  There  is 
besides  one  reference  to  a  living  European  states- 


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man,  a  statesman  prominently  concerned  with 
Freemasonry,  secular  education,  and  the  League 
of  Nations,  who  is  described  as  “one  of  our  best 
agents.”  There  is  also  this  curious  reference: 

“In  order  that  our  scheme  may  produce  this 
result  we  shall  arrange  elections  in  favour  of  such 
presidents  as  have  in  their  past  some  dark  undis¬ 
covered  stain,  some  ‘  Panama  ’  or  other  .  .  .  then 
they  will  be  trustworthy  agents  for  the  accom¬ 
plishment  of  our  plans  out  of  fear  of  revelations.” 

The  first  Panama  Company,  it  may  be  re¬ 
membered,  became  bankrupt  in  1889,  and  the 
scandal  occupied  the  French  public  in  the  decade 
which  followed. 

There  is  no  reference  to  England  in  the  protocols, 
the  nearest  approach  being  a  statement  by  Nilus 
himself  that  the  protocols  were  shown,  among 
others,  to  a  very  wealthy  and  influential  British 
Jew,  now  dead.  But  for  this  statement  there  is,  of 
course,  no  evidence  in  the  protocols  themselves. 

So  much  then  for  the  date.  The  protocols  must 
have  been  delivered  or  written  at  some  time  be¬ 
tween  1889  and  1905. 

Now  it  must  be  considered  evidence — not  con¬ 
clusive,  certainly,  but  very  strong — that  at  that 


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date  there  was  foreknowledge  or  prediction  of  the 
great  revolutionary  movement  which  is  now  taking 
place.  The  means  by  which  it  was  to  be  brought 
about,  wars,  the  rise  in  prices,  the  corruption  of 
governments,  and  the  use  of  Jewish  agents,  all 
apply  to  the  revolution  in  Russia,  and  to  the 
attempted  revolutions  in  Germany  and  Hungary. 
It  is  known,  for  example,  that  the  two  Spartacist 
leaders  in  Germany  were  Jews,  that  Bela  Kun, 
Szamuelly,  and  in  fact  nearly  every  one  of  the 
Hungarian  revolutionaries  were  Jews,  and  there  is 
universal  testimony  by  all  Christian  refugees  from 
Russia  that  the  Soviet  Commissaries,  almost  to  a 
man,  are  Jews.  Lenin  is  one  of  the  few  prominent 
figures  not  Jewish,  but  even  Lenin  is  said  to  be 
married  to  a  Jewess. 

In  any  event  it  is  plain  from  the  protocols  that 
the  leader  of  anarchy  is  not  the  King  of  Zion  to 
whom  they  refer.  He  only  leads  the  way  and 
must  himself  be  swept  aside  so  that  there  may  be 
not  a  splinter  in  the  path  of  the  King  of  the  House 
of  David.  In  the  fourth  protocol  the  course  of  a 
revolution  is  very  accurately  described:  “In  the 
early  days  mad  raging  by  the  blind  mob  .  .  .  the 
second  demagogy,  from  which  is  born  anarchy, 
and  that  leads  inevitably  to  despotism.” 


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Apparently  not  only  Russia  but  the  whole  world 
must  pass  through  these  stages  before  the  King  of 
Zion  is  proclaimed. 

In  the  meantime  it  is  at  least  clear,  as  Colonel 
Malone  admitted,  that  Jews  are  behind  the  Revo¬ 
lution  in  Russia,  and  that  is  what,  after  all,  the 
protocols  claim. 

As  to  the  several  references  to  “our  international 
super-government,”  these  may  or  may  not  refer 
to  the  League  of  Nations,  but  it  is  my  contention 
that  such  a  government  will  play  into  the  hands 
of  the  international  Jews,  and  will  weaken  the 
sovereignty  of  nations. 

The  boastful  and  bombastic  character  of  the 
protocols  remind  us  rather  strikingly  of  those 
passages  in  Disraeli’s  Coningsby  which  claim  for  the 
Jews  the  control  of  European  affairs,  both  on  the 
revolutionary  and  conservative  side.  If  these 
documents  are  genuine,  this  boastfulness  is  a  crumb 
of  comfort  to  the  Christian  peoples,  since  pride 
proverbially  goeth  before  a  fall. 

There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that  the  Jews  have 
a  right  to  claim  a  very  considerable  influence  in  the 
movement  of  thought  generally  called  “Modern¬ 
ism,”  or  in  politics  “Liberalism.”  We  have  seen 
how  L6mann  asserted  that  the  Jews  who  worked 


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for  this  movement  in  Germany  before  the  Revolu¬ 
tion  were  themselves  faithful  to  the  national  or 
tribal  principle  of  Judaism.  We  must,  therefore, 
suppose  that  these  Jews  embraced  Modernism, 
not  for  itself,  but  as  a  means  of  weakening  Chris¬ 
tian  nations. 

In  this  connection  it  is  noteworthy  that  at  the 
universal  conference  of  the  Jews  held  at  Leipsic  in 
1869,  when  the  Alliance  Israelite  Universelle  was 
founded,  the  following  resolution  was  proposed  by 
Dr.  Philippson,  of  Bonn,  seconded  by  Astrup, 
Chief  Rabbi  of  Belgium,  and  adopted  with  ac¬ 
clamation  : 

“The  Synod  recognizes  that  the  development 
and  realization  of  modern  principles  are  the  most 
certain  guarantees  of  the  present  and  the  future  of 
Judaism  and  its  members.  They  are  the  most 
energetically  vital  conditions  for  the  expansive 
existence  and  the  most  high  development  of 
Judaism.” 

It  seemed  to  some  democrats  then  a  little  hu¬ 
miliating  that  their  universal  movement  should  be 
claimed  as  serving  the  cause  of  a  particular  na¬ 
tionalism  ;  but  if  the  apparently  innocent  resolution 
of  1869  has  been  translated  into  these  terrible 


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protocols  of  world  revolution,  the  modern  world 
must  feel  not  merely  humiliation,  but  horror. 

So  much  then  for  the  internal  evidence  on  its 
broad  lines,  the  correspondence,  that  is  to  say, 
between  the  known  activities  of  political  and 
revolutionary  Jewry  and  the  claims  of  these 
protocols.  We  might  sum  up  the  case  for  their 
genuineness  in  the  shrewd  words  of  Abraham 
Lincoln : 

“When  we  see  a  lot  of  frame  timber  different  por¬ 
tions  of  which  we  know  have  been  gotten  out  at 
different  times  and  places,  by  different  workmen — 
Stephen,  Franklin,  Roger,  and  James,  for  instance 
— and  when  we  see  these  timbers  framed  together 
and  see  they  exactly  make  the  frame  of  a  house  or 
a  mill — or  if  a  single  piece  be  lacking,  we  see  the 
piece  in  the  frame  exactly  fitted  and  prepared,  yet 
to  bring  such  piece  in — in  such  a  case  we  find  it 
impossible  not  to  believe  that  Stephen  and  Frank¬ 
lin  and  Roger  and  James  all  understood  one 
another  from  the  beginning,  and  all  worked  upon  a 
common  plan  or  draft  drawn  up  before  the  first 
blow  was  struck.” 

At  the  same  time,  we  must  in  fairness  state  our 
belief  that  if  the  document  be  genuine,  it  ought 
certainly  not  to  be  regarded  as  an  indictment  of  all 


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Jews,  but  of  that  section  which,  under  a  veil  of 
Masonry  and  through  the  revolutionary  parties 
among  the  Gentiles,  works  for  ends  kept  secret  no 
doubt  from  the  majority  of  Jews  themselves. 


CHAPTER  VIII 


We  have  now  passed  these  protocols  in  general 
review.  We  have  summarized  their  contents. 
We  have  pointed  out  that  the  document,  as  far 
as  we  know,  cannot  be  “proved”  in  any  legal 
sense.  For  the  manner  in  which  it  was  obtained 
and  for  its  authorship  alike  there  is  the  testimony 
of  but  one  man — the  Russian  Nilus. 

And  if  we  consider  the  internal  evidence  fairly 
it  amounts  to  this:  that  the  document  predicts  a 
world  revolution,  and  a  world  revolution  carried 
out  by  a  Jewish  organization,  and  that  the  revolu¬ 
tion  now  in  progress — the  Bolshevist  Revolution — 
is  in  fact  carried  on  mainly  by  Jews,  and  is  an 
attempt  at  a  world  revolution. 

There  we  must  leave  it.  If  our  readers  believe 
that  such  a  prophecy  could  have  been  made  with¬ 
out  foreknowledge  by  some  anti-Semitic  fanatic, 
then,  of  course,  they  will  not  accept  the  document 
as  genuine.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  they  believe 
that  such  a  hypothesis  is  untenable,  then  there  is 


92 


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only  the  alternative  that  the  document  is  genuine. 
If  they  believe  the  former  they  may  sleep  comfort¬ 
ably  in  their  beds;  if  they  believe  the  latter  then 
they  must  regard  the  document  as  a  very  serious 
warning  of  a  very  terrible  menace.  They  will, 
however,  have  this  comfort — to  be  forewarned  is 
to  be  forearmed. 

But  before  we  leave  this  subject  there  is  one 
side  of  the  question  which  we  must  consider  more 
fully,  and  that  is  the  passages  in  these  protocols 
which  refer  to  Freemasonry.  The  main  passage 
occurs  in  Protocol  15: 


“We  shall  create  and  multiply  Freemasonic 
lodges  in  all  the  countries  of  the  world,  absorb  in 
them  all  who  are  or  who  may  become  prominent 
in  public  activity,  for  in  these  lodges  we  shall  find 
our  principal  intelligence  office  and  means  of  in¬ 
fluence.  All  these  lodges  we  shall  bring  under  one 
central  administration  known  to  us  alone  and  to 
all  others  absolutely  unknown,  which  will  be  com¬ 
posed  of  our  Learned  Elders.  The  lodges  will  have 
their  representatives,  who  will  serve  to  screen  this 
central  administration,  and  from  whom  will  issue 
the  watchword  and  programme.  In  these  lodges 
we  shall  tie  the  knot  which  binds  together  all 
revolutionary  and  liberal  elements.” 


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Now,  the  attentive  reader  will  connect  this 
passage  with  certain  other  passages  curiously 
similar  which  we  have  quoted  in  the  course  of  these 
pages.  There  was,  for  example,  the  passage  from 
Louis  Blanc’s  History  of  the  French  Revolution: 

“They  created  occult  lodges  reserved  for  ardent 
souls  .  .  .  shadowy  sanctuaries  whose  doors  were 
only  open  to  the  adept  after  a  long  series  of  proofs 
calculated  to  test  the  progress  of  their  revolu¬ 
tionary  education.” 

They  will  remember,  also,  that  remarkable 
passage  from  Albert  Pike’s  Masonic  Ritual: 

“Masonry  has  not  only  been  profaned,  but  it 
has  even  served  as  a  veil  and  pretext  for  the  plot¬ 
tings  of  anarchy,  by  the  secret  influence  of  the 
avengers  of  Jacques  de  Molai.” 

They  will  remember,  also,  the  passage  quoted 
from  the  same  author’s  Ritual  of  the  Southern 
Jurisdiction  of  the  United  States: 

1 1  My  brother,  you  desire  to  unite  yourself  to  an 
Order  which  has  laboured  in  silence  and  secrecy 
for  more  than  five  hundred  years  with  a  single  end 
in  view,  and  hitherto  with  only  partial  success — 


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that  what  you  are  now  engaged  in  .  .  .  will  ex¬ 
pose  you  to  danger,  and  that  this  Order  means  to 
deal  with  the  affairs  of  nations  and  be  once  more 
a  power  in  the  world.” 

These  words,  let  it  be  remembered,  are  part  of 
the  ritual  of  an  Order  of  Freemasonry  known  to 
have  been  chiefly  founded  by  Jews,  and  suspected 
of  being  still  largely  under  Jewish  influence. 

We  might  carry  our  quotations  further.  The 
Grand  Orient  of  France  is  generally  believed  to  be 
under  Hebraic  influence.  On  April  2,  1889,  the 
Grand  Orient  issued  a  circular  which  contained 
these  words : 

“  Masonry,  which  prepared  the  Revolution  of 
1789,  has  the  duty  to  continue  its  work.” 

Again,  these  protocols  speak  of  the  destruction 
of  religion  as  a  means  of  undermining  society. 
Let  us  see  what  the  Grand  Orient  says  of  religion : 

“The  triumph  of  the  Galilean,”  says  the  Presi¬ 
dent  of  the  Grand  Orient,  Senator  Delpech,  on 
September  20,  1902,  “has  lasted  twenty  centuries. 
But  now  He  dies  in  His  turn.  The  mysterious 
voice  announcing  (Julian  the  Apostate)  the  death 
of  Pan  today  announces  the  death  of  the  imposter 


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God,  Who  promised  an  era  of  justice  and  peace 
to  those  who  believed  in  Him.  Masons,  we  re¬ 
joice  to  state  that  we  are  not  without  our  share 
in  this  overthrow  of  the  false  prophets.” 

Of  these  passages  at  least  there  is  no  doubt  at 
all,  for  they  are  taken  from  the  official  literature 
of  the  Grand  Orient.  Let  the  reader  decide  for 
himself  whether  they  are  the  mere  vapourings  of 
fanatical  atheists  or  a  part  of  the  design  of  world 
revolution  outlined  in  the  protocols. 

But  the  protocols  asserted  that  they  intended 
to  multiply  Freemasonic  lodges  as  a  preliminary  to 
revolution.  What  is  actually  being  done?  We 
know  that  English  Masonry  generally  is  non¬ 
political  and  loyal  to  British  institutions.  If  there¬ 
fore  these  conspirators  are  carrying  out  their  plan 
in  this  country  it  must  be  by  the  introduction  into 
England  of  the  Oriental  or  Scottish  Orders  of 
Masonry,  that  is  to  say,  Masonry  of  the  revolu¬ 
tionary  type. 

Now  in  the  year  1893  a  French  lodge  called 
Les  Libres  Penseurs  constituted  itself  into  La 
Grande  Loge  Symbolique  Ecossaise  de  France ,  Le 
Droit  Humain.  One  of  the  peculiarities  of  this 
Order  was  that  it  admitted  women  as  well  as  men, 


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and  the  movement  has  come  to  be  known  as  Co- 
Masonry.  And  with  this  Co-Masonry  was  curi¬ 
ously  mingled  the  cult  of  Theosophy.  Those  who 
have  studied  the  movement  find  that  the  leading 
lights  of  Theosophy  are  usually  members  of  the 
Co-Masonic  lodges. 

But  to  proceed.  In  1900,  this  new  Grand  Lodge 
transformed  itself  into  a  Supreme  Council  of  the 
Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite. 

There  are  now  a  hundred  lodges  working  under 
the  Supreme  Council,  and  they  are  to  be  found  in 
France,  Belgium,  England,  Scotland,  India,  Hol¬ 
land,  Java,  Switzerland,  Norway,  South  Africa, 
and  South  America.  Those  lodges  of  this  Order 
which  use  the  English  language  have  a  subsidiary 
Council  of  their  own,  but  are  nevertheless  an  in¬ 
tegral  part  of  the  Continental  Order.  On  the 
Council  of  the  33d  Degree  there  are  three  English 
Co-Masons  out  of  the  total  of  nine,  so  that  the 
British  representatives  are  outnumbered  by  two 
to  one. 

It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  this  movement 
is  not  recognized  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England, 
which  has  cut  off  all  relations  with  the  Grand 
Orient  of  France  on  the  ground  of  its  atheism  and 
also  of  its  subversive  political  tendencies.  But  the 


98  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


original  French  members  of  the  Co-Masonic  move¬ 
ment  were  too  advanced  even  for  the  revolutionary 
Grand  Orient  of  Paris. 

As  we  have  said,  the  British  Co-Masonic  lodges 
have  a  special  Grand  Council,  and  in  England 
they  have  restored  the  Bible  and  the  name  of  God 
to  their  ritual.  .  But  six  members  of  the  Grand 
Council  are  carefully  selected  from  above,  and  the 
representatives  of  the  lower  degrees  are  in  a  hope¬ 
less  minority  on  the  Council,  while  the  Council 
itself  is  subject  to  the  control  of  the  33d  Degree 
sitting  in  Paris.  Thus  no  new  lodges  can  be 
founded  without  the  sanction  of  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Paris,  and  the  petition  must  first  be 
endorsed  by  the  Council  of  England.  It  will  thus 
be  seen  that  this  Co-Masonic  organization  has  been 
very  carefully  thought  out,  and  that  its  activities  are 
subject  to  the  control  of  an  unseen  hand  in  Paris. 

Now  we  do  not  allege  that  all  the  members  of 
the  Co-Masonic  movement  are  conspirators.  On 
the  contrary,  we  believe  that  many  of  them  are 
either  honest  enthusiasts  or  “those  light-minded 
people"  to  whom  the  protocols  so  contemptuously 
refer.  What  we  do  suggest  is  that  the  movement 
was  probably  inaugurated  and  may  probably  be 
directed  to  revolutionary  ends. 


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We  do  not  propose  for  the  moment  to  say  any¬ 
thing  more  of  this  Co- Masonic  movement  except 
this,  that  while  some  of  its  members  seem  to  be 
respectable  and  innocent  people,  some  others  who 
are  connected  with  it  and  who  help  to  promote  it 
are  known  also  to  be  connected  with  the  revolu¬ 
tionary  and  seditious  movements  which  have 
recently  disturbed  and,  indeed,  endangered  the 
British  Empire.  Of  that  we  possess  proofs.  In 
the  meantime  we  would  confine  ourselves  to  warn¬ 
ing  the  public  of  both  sexes  to  beware  of  such 
movements.  They  are  put  before  them  in  an 
alluring  form,  but  those  who  join  them  may  dis¬ 
cover  too  late  that  they  are  '‘the  shadowy  sanc¬ 
tuaries  of  revolution.” 

It  may  now  be  useful  to  summarize  what  has 
gone  before  and  also  to  make  some  general  remarks 
upon  the  nature  and  effects  of  revolution.  Our 
summary,  then,  is,  first,  that  in  all  the  revolu¬ 
tionary  movements  we  have  examined  there  are 
plain  traces  of  design,  and  there  is  evidence  also 
that  this  design  is  common  to  all  revolutionary 
movements.  In  the  second  place,  we  have  seen 
that  certain  Orders  of  Freemasonry  have  been 
active  in  this  design,  and  that  they  have  always 
been  inspired  by  the  same  ferocious  hatred  of 


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Christian  Church  and  National  State.  And  in  the 
third  place  we  have  observed  that  a  certain  type  of 
“advanced”  or  political  Jews  have  been  active, 
both  in  the  Masonic  organizations  and  in  the  revo¬ 
lutions  themselves.  They  have  not,  it  is  true,  led 
the  forlorn  hopes ;  they  are  seldom  to  be  seen  either 
on  the  barricades  or  on  the  scaffold,  but  they  lurk 
behind,  active  and  energetic  in  intrigue,  and  giving 
the  impression  of  a  purposeful  activity. 

We  have  seen  how  the  Abbe  Lemann,  himself  by 
race  a  Jew,  was  careful  to  distinguish  between  the 
advanced,  or  political,  Jew,  who  nourished  great 
ambitions  for  himself  and  for  his  race,  but  who  had 
liberated  himself  from  his  religion,  and  the  mass  of 
Jews  who  are  content  to  remain  good  citizens  of 
the  country  of  their  adoption  and  satisfy  the  ideal 
side  of  their  nature  with  the  religion  of  their 
ancestors. 

We  may  take  it,  then,  that  these  ardent  po¬ 
litical  spirits  dream  a  political  dream  which  is  a 
modern  development  of  the  Messianic  prophecies, 
and  that  they  have  also  in  their  blood  a  traditional 
and  racial  hatred  for  the  Christian  nations  which  in 
ages  past  have  not  treated  their  people  too  well. 
We  see  this  hatred  in  the  realm  of  Jewish  thought, 
in  the  revolutionary  system  of  Alexander  Hercen, 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  ioi 


the  intellectual  founder  of  Russian  anarchy,  in  the 
explosive  economics  of  Lassalle  and  Karl  Marx, 
and  in  the  passionate  dreams  of  Heine.  Heine 
gloats  over  the  prospect  of  the  “German  thunder 
that  is  coming  slowly  but  will  come — when  you 
hear  an  uproar  such  as  there  never  was  in  history, 
know  then  that  the  German  thunderbolt  has 
struck  its  mark  .  .  .  the  Germans  will  then  stage 
a  play  in  comparison  with  which  the  French  Revo¬ 
lution  was  but  an  idyll.”  And,  again,  in  his  pre¬ 
diction  of  the  r61e  of  Russia — “We  do  not  mind  a 
little  slavery  more  or  less,  for  through  Russia  we 
shall  be  liberated  from  the  remains  of  feudalism 
and  clericalism.  ” 1 

And,  lastly,  we  have  found  that  all  these  ele¬ 
ments  come  together  in  a  revolutionary  propa¬ 
ganda  both  Semitic  and  Masonic,  which  has  been, 
as  a  fact,  behind  revolutionary  movements  both 
in  the  nineteenth  and  the  twentieth  centuries,  and 
probably  also  in  the  eighteenth  century. 

We  arrive  at  these  conclusions  altogether  in¬ 
dependently  of  the  Nilus  book,  a  book  the  credibil- 

1  These  quotations  from  Heine  are  taken  from  an  extremely- 
interesting  article  by  the  Count  de  Soissons  on  the  Jews  as  a 
revolutionary  leaven  in  the  January,  1920,  number  of  the  Quar¬ 
terly  Review. 


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ity  of  which  rests,  as  we  have  said,  entirely  upon 
internal  evidence. 

If  these  conclusions  are  well  founded,  a  revolu¬ 
tion  is  not  the  result  of  what  we  might  call  spon¬ 
taneous  social  combustion  but  the  result  of  design. 
Yet  there  is  this  caution  to  be  made:  a  house  does 
not  spontaneously  ignite,  but  it  will  burn  fiercely 
if  its  materials  are  dry,  combustible,  and  rotten. 
It  will  probably  not  catch  fire  at  all  if  it  is  built  of 
fireproof  material  and  is  inhabited  by  people  who 
take  proper  precautions  against  fire.  So  with  a 
nation;  the  social  organization  cannot  be  fanned 
into  the  flames  of  revolution,  no  matter  what  secret 
societies  are  at  work,  unless  the  conditions  are 
favourable  to  revolution.  The  conditions  favour¬ 
able  to  revolution  have  been  diagnosed  by  states¬ 
men  and  by  historians.  They  are  not,  properly 
speaking,  the  business  of  these  papers,  which  was 

simply  to  look  for  the  incendiary  design,  not  to 

« 

devise  a  fireproof  house.  Yet  nevertheless  we  may 
suggest  briefly  the  causes  which  predispose  to 
revolution  in  all  ages  and  in  all  nations.  Wars 
certainly,  and  in  particular  unsuccessful  wars, 
which  leave  soldiers  unemployed,  and  produce  in 
men  a  fitness  for  desperate  deeds,  are  one  cause. 
Bad  trade,  which  throws  men  upon  the  streets 


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and  leaves  them  idle  and  ripe  for  mischief,  which 
makes  thousands  of  men  think  that  any  change  is 
better  than  present  conditions — that  is  another 
cause.  We  shall  find  if  we  look  into  it  that  prac¬ 
tically  every  revolution  is  preceded  by  a  period  of 
bad  trade  and  unemployment.  Bad  harvests  and 
scarcity  of  food,  producing  hunger  and  envy  in  the 
masses  of  the  people,  are  another  cause.  Party 
rivalries  and  factions  in  the  State,  producing  bands 
of  men  at  enmity  with  the  presiding  Government, 
and  willing  to  bring  it  down  for  their  own  purposes 
— these  certainly  constitute  another  cause.  The 
character  of  the  Government  itself,  whether  it 
suppresses  too  much  the  common  liberties  of  the 
nation,  or,  on  the  other  side,  is  too  indulgent  with 
treason  and  crime,  or,  again,  is  inspired  by  imprac¬ 
ticable  ideals  which  bring  the  State  to  disaster — 
here  we  have  still  another  cause  of  revolution.  And 
extravagant  ideas  in  the  minds  of  the  people, 
whether  of  liberty  so  great  that  it  injures  others, 
or  of  wealth  so  easy  that  it  resembles  plunder, 
these,  too,  may  induce  to  revolution. 

Moreover,  it  has  happened  in  history  that  an 
astute  and  unscrupulous  ruler,  as,  for  example, 
Frederick  the  Great,  may  promote  a  revolution  in 
a  neighbouring  country  for  his  own  purposes,  by 


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propaganda  and  by  what  we  now  call  peaceful 
penetration. 

Certainly  a  country  well  governed  by  respected 
rulers,  whose  industries  are  prosperous,  and  whose 
subjects  are  reasonably  happy,  is  the  sort  of  na¬ 
tional  house  that  does  not  readily  take  fire.  It  is 
for  our  statesmen  to  consider  whether  England  is 
at  present  in  this  case. 

When  all  or  any  such  disturbing  conditions 
exist,  then  the  wreckers  work,  then  the  shadowy 
sanctuaries  of  revolution  become  busy,  and  the 
people  ripe  for  trouble  are  persuaded  on  every 
hand  that  their  ills  can  be  redressed  by  the  de¬ 
struction  of  society. 

It  is  a  terrible  fallacy.  A  nation,  and  especially 
a  modern  nation,  is  a  highly  complex  system  of 
life.  It  has  grown,  it  has  developed,  and  it  exists 
by  the  intricate  interaction  of  millions  of  parts  one 
with  another.  Russia  was  a  country  which  of  all 
countries  in  Europe  could  best  stand  a  revolution, 
for  its  industrial  organization  was  comparatively 
low.  Ninety  per  cent,  of  the  people  lived  on  the 
land  in  a  manner  almost  self-contained.  They 
could  live,  although  the  machinery  of  modern  in¬ 
dustrialism  was  brought  to  a  stand.  Yet  even  in 
Russia  the  inhabitants  of  the  great  towns  and  the 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  105 


middle  and  upper  classes,  all  essential  to  the 
national  life,  have  been  almost  altogether  de¬ 
stroyed,  except  those  aliens  who  were  able  to  come 
to  terms  with  the  “terrible  sect.”  The  population 
of  great  cities  has  in  many  cases  almost  disappeared. 
Whole  classes  have  been  either  destroyed  or  have 
fled  the  country.  But  consider  the  situation  of 
such  a  country  as  England  in  a  revolution,  where 
less  than  half  the  people  live  upon  the  land,  and 
more  than  half  depend  upon  great  intricate  indus¬ 
tries  in  which  they  are  all  specialists,  and  the 
profits  of  which  buy  for  them  all  their  necessities. 
Let  us  consider,  too,  that  in  this  country  most  of 
our  food  does  not  come  from  the  farm  in  the  coun¬ 
try  cart,  but  by  ship  and  railway  from  great  dis¬ 
tances  and  from  foreign  countries.  If  the  industrial 
machinery  is  brought  to  a  stop,  if  the  carrying 
machinery  is  paralyzed  even  for  a  fortnight,  more 
than  half  the  nation  is  deprived  of  the  means  of 
existence.  As  individuals  they  are  helpless;  they 
must  starve.  If  they  rush  the  shops  and  plunder 
the  warehouses,  if  they  rob  their  richer  neighbours 
and  forage  through  the  country  in  plundering 
hordes,  they  may  exist  a  little  while  longer,  but  the 
end  is  no  less  inevitable.  In  any  revolution  which 
was  really  successful  from  the  point  of  view  of  the 


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revolutionaries,  that  is  to  say,  in  any  revolution 
which  paralyzed  what  is  called  the  capitalistic 
organization  by  which  we  live,  at  least  half  and 
probably  three  quarters  of  the  population  would 
die  of  starvation.  Let  us  not  say  that  it  cannot 
happen  because  it  has  not  happened  so  far.  If  a 
revolution  occurs  it  must  happen. 

France  was  comparatively  fortunate  in  the 
Reign  of  Terror,  because  her  population  at  that 
time  was  chiefly  agricultural,  yet  it  is  certain  that 
a  large  part  of  the  population  died,  whether  by 
massacre  or  by  starvation.  Prudhomme  estimates 
that  the  death-roll  in  France  during  the  Terror, 
including  losses  through  civil  war,  was  1,025,711. 
In  Nancy  alone,  by  the  guillotine,  shooting,  and 
wholesale  drownings  and  by  pestilence,  32,000 
people  lost  their  lives.  Taine  says  that  there  were 
nearly  half  a  million  victims  of  the  Terror  in  the 
eleven  provinces  of  the  west  alone.  We  now  know 
that  the  revolutionaries  saw  clearly  that  the  popu¬ 
lation  could  not  continue  to  exist,  and  were  deter¬ 
mined  to  reduce  it.  Courtois,  in  his  report  on  the 
papers  seized  at  Robespierre’s  house,  speaks  of  a 
plan  to  annihilate  twelve  or  fifteen  millions  of  the 
French  people.  One  of  the  Illuminati,  Gracchus 
Babeuf,  said  that  depopulation  was  indispensable. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  107 


Prudhomme  asserts  that  the  Terror  was  part  of 
a  plan  of  depopulation  conceived  by  Marat  and 
Robespierre.  Carrier,  one  of  the  instruments  of 
the  Terror,  said:  “Let  us  make  a  cemetery  of 
France  rather  than  not  regenerate  her  after  our 
manner.”  Jean  Bon  Saint- Andre  is  reported  (by 
Larevelliere-Lepeaux)  to  have  asserted  that  in 
order  to  establish  the  Republic  securely  in  France, 
the  population  must  be  reduced  by  more  than 
one  half. 

And  these  massacres  were  indiscriminate.  Mod¬ 
ern  analyses  of  the  names  of  the  victims  show  that 
they  were  not  chiefly  aristocrats,  but  were  drawn 
in  the  main  from  among  poor  and  obscure  people, 
small  shopkeepers.  Of  the  1366  victims  of  the 
Great  Terror  in  Paris,  the  largest  proportion  was 
either  from  the  middle  or  the  working  classes. 
Hundreds  of  working  men  and  working  women 
were  guillotined  for  reasons  that  cannot  now  be 
ascertained.  It  is  probable  that  many  of  them 
were  denounced  out  of  panic,  and  many  others  for 
reasons  of  blackmail.  People  killed  in  order  not 
to  be  killed,  and  the  tribunal  demanded  victims 
at  the  rate  of  so  many  a  day  in  order  to  overawe 
those  who  remained. 

Such  things  take  place  when  the  social  order  is 


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in  dissolution,  when  criminals  and  fanatics  usurp 
the  place  of  Government.  And  there  is  another 
terror  added.  For  the  enemies  of  a  nation  in  revo¬ 
lution  take  the  opportunity  of  attacking  it,  and 
invasion  and  internal  war  complete  the  destruc¬ 
tion.  No  nation  can  without  a  terrible  catastrophe 
destroy  its  social  and  industrial  order  and  its 
national  discipline. 


CHAPTER  IX 


“Want  and  opinion  are  the  two  agents  which  make 
all  men  act.  Cause  the  want,  govern  the  opinions, 
and  you  will  overturn  all  the  existing  systems, 
however  well  consolidated  they  may  appear.” 
That  maxim  of  revolutionary  Freemasonry  quoted 
by  the  Abbe  Barruel  in  his  Memoirs  of  Jacobinism , 
towards  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century,  epi¬ 
tomizes  the  strange  creed  whose  evolution  has  been 
traced.  The  inferences  to  be  drawn  from  those 
mysterious  pronouncements,  beginning  with  the 
foundation  of  the  Illuminati  in  Bavaria  in  1776, 
down  to  the  publication  of  the  now  famous  Pro¬ 
tocols  of  Meetings  of  the  “Learned  Elders  of  Zion” 
in  1905  by  the  Russian,  Serge  Nilus,  are  that  for  a 
long  period  of  time  a  conspiracy  has  been  gradually 
developing  for  the  overthrowing  of  the  existing 
Christian  form  of  civilization,  that  the  prime 
agents  of  that  conspiracy  were  Jews  and  revolu¬ 
tionary  Freemasons,  and  that  its  object,  which  it 
is  claimed  is  now  near  fruition,  is  to  pave  the  way 


109 


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for  the  world  supremacy  of  a  chosen  people.  We 
do  not  profess  to  be  able  to  substantiate  these  in¬ 
ferences;  all  we  can  do  is  to  draw  attention  to 
some  of  the  great  forces  which  in  recent  years 
have  been  moulding  government  and  opinion  and 
to  see  if  they  bear  any  resemblance  in  themselves 
and  in  their  effects  to  the  dreams  and  schemes 
fashioned  by  these  eager  and  determined  fanatics. 

Now,  the  first  point  which  must  strike  any 
student  of  world  movements  at  the  present 
moment  is  that  men  are  certainly  acting.  Indeed, 
compared  with  the  ceaseless  ■  activities  both  in 
thought  and  action  of  the  men  of  today,  our  fore¬ 
fathers  were  men  who  merely  slept.  Daring  revolu¬ 
tionary  ideals,  daring  revolutionary  movements, 
are  sweeping  the  world  either  towards  a  new 
heaven  or  towards  the  abyss — it  depends  upon 
one’s  point  of  view.  Men,  indeed,  are  acting,  and 
the  forces  which  are  moving  them  are  want  and 
opinion!  Strikes  follow  one  another  all  over  the 
world  with  the  rapidity  and  concerted  action  of 
waves  beating  upon  a  shore,  and  the  strikers 
proclaim  that  driven  by  want  they  are  out 
for  large  increases  in  wages.  In  that  connection 
it  is  worth  quoting  again  a  sentence  from  the 
Protocols : 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  hi 


“We  shall  raise  the  rate  of  wages,  which,  however, 
will  not  bring  any  advantage  to  the  workers,  for 
at  the  same  time  we  shall  produce  a  rise  in  prices 
of  the  first  necessaries  of  life.” 

So  much  for  want.  And  as  for  opinion,  great 
masses  of  men  of  different  nationality,  race,  re¬ 
ligion,  class,  and  profession  are  in  these  days 
swayed  and  driven  and  almost  consumed  by  a  new 
gospel  which  boldly  bids  for  the  place  held  through¬ 
out  the  Christian  era  by  the  old.  This  gospel  is 
Bolshevism.  It  is  derived  primarily  from  the 
beatitudes  pronounced  by  the  Jew,  Karl  Marx, 
and  its  present  fountain  head  is  Moscow.  Bolshe¬ 
vism  is  openly  anti-Christian  and  revolutionary. 
It  seeks  to  abolish  property,  to  found  the  dictator¬ 
ship  of  the  proletariat,  to  place  the  world  under  an 
international  control.  Now  nearly  all  the  Bolshe¬ 
vik  leaders  are  Jews.  That  is  a  fact  of  tremendous 
significance.  Here  is  a  list,  the  result  of  much 
labour,  and  the  work  of  several  hands,  which  gives 
the  pseudonyms,  the  real  names,  and  the  racial 
origin  of  fifty  persons  who  either  are  the  actual 
governing  powers  in  Soviet  Russia,  now  or  were 
responsible  for  the  establishment  there  of  the 
present  regime : 


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Real 

Pseudonym. 

Name. 

Race. 

i.  Lenin 

Oulianov 

. .  Russian 

2.  Trotsky 

Bronstein  . . 

Jew 

3.  Steklov 

Nachamkess 

Jew 

4.  Martov 

Tsederbaum 

Jew 

5.  Zinoviev 

Apfelbaum 

Jew 

6.  Goussiev 

Drapkin 

Jew 

7.  Kamenev 

Rosenfeld  . . 

Jew 

8.  Souhanov 

Ghimmer  . . 

. .  German 

9.  Sagersky  . . 

Krachmann 

Jew 

10.  Bogdanov. . 

Silberstein  . . 

Jew 

11.  Gorev 

Goldman 

Jew 

12.  Ouritzky 

Radomislsky 

Jew 

13.  Volodarsky 

Kohen 

Jew 

14.  Sverdlov 

Sverdlov 

..  (?)  Jew 

15.  Kamkov 

Katz 

Jew 

16.  Ganetzky 

Furstenberg 

Jew 

17.  Dann 

Gourevitch 

Jew 

18.  Meshkovsky 

Goldberg  . . 

Jew 

19.  Parvus 

Helphandt  . . 

Jew 

20.  Riazanov 

Goldenbach 

Jew 

21.  Martinov 

Zimbar 

Jew 

22.  Tchernomorsky  . . 

Tchernomordik 

Jew 

23.  Piatnitzky 

Levin 

Jew 

24.  Abramovitch 

Rein 

Jew 

25.  Solntzev 

Bleichman  . . 

Jew 

26.  Zverzditch 

Fonstein 

Jew 

27.  Radek 

Sobelson 

Jew 

28.  Litvinov,  alias  Fin- 

kenstein 

Wallack 

Jew 

29.  Lounatcharsky  . . 

Lounatcharsky 

. .  Russian 

30.  Kolontai  . . 

Kolontai 

. .  Russian 

31.  Peters 

Peters 

. .  Lett 

32.  Maklakovsky 

Rosenbloom 

Jew 

33.  Lapinsky 

Levenson  . . 

Jew 

34.  Vobrov 

Natansson  . . 

Jew 

35.  Ortodoks 

Akselrode  . . 

Jew 

36.  Garin 

Gerfeldt 

Jew 

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Real 


Pseudonym. 

Name. 

Race. 

37.  Glazounov . . 

Schulze 

Jew 

38.  Lebedieva. . 

Simson 

. .  Jewess 

39.  Joffe 

Joffe 

Jew 

40.  Kamensky.. 

Hoffman 

Jew 

41.  Naout 

Ginzburg 

Jew 

42.  Zagorsky  . . 

Krachmalink 

Jew 

43.  Izgoev 

Goldman 

Jew 

44.  Vladimirov 

Feldman 

Jew 

45.  Bounskov  . . 

Foundamentzky 

Jew 

46.  Manouilsky 

Manouilsky 

Jew 

47.  Larin 

. .  Lourie 

Jew 

48.  Krassin 

Krassin 

. .  Russian 

49.  Tchicherin 

Tchicherin  . . 

. .  Russian 

50.  Goukovsky 

Goukovsky 

. .  Russian 

According  to  certain  authorities  Lenin’s  mother 
(as  likewise  the  mother  of  Karenski)  was  a  Jewess. 
Mr.  Krassin’s  wife  is  also  a  Jewess. 

Some  of  these  names  are  so  familiar  now  to  Eng¬ 
lish  readers  that  it  is  unnecessary  to  give  their 
biographies,  but  the  following  brief  notes  concern¬ 
ing  the  less  known,  but  still  prominent  Bolsheviks 
may  be  useful : 


“Martov  (4)  was  the  leader  of  the  Menshevik 
faction  at  the  famous  London  Conference  of  1893 
when  the  words  ‘Bolshevik’  and  ‘Menshevik’ 
first  came  into  use.  Lenin,  representing  the  Bol¬ 
sheviks,  was  his  opponent  at  that  time.  He  is  the 
only  prominent  Menshevik  who  has  taken  an 


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active  part  in  the  Bolshevist  regime.  He  has  done 
so  despite  the  fact  that  he  has  never  ceased  to 
predict  ultimate  disaster  for  the  present  Govern¬ 
ment. 

“Kamenev  (7)  is  Trotsky’s  brother-in-law  and 
the  chief  oratorical  support  of  the  Bolshevist  cause. 
He  is  anything  but  democratic  in  manner  and  in 
some  respects  is  cultivated.  He  is  or  was  President 
of  the  Moscow  Soviet. 

“Volodarsky  (13)  is  now  dead.  He  was  a 
Jewish  tailor  from  London,  who  joined  the  move¬ 
ment  soon  after  it  took  form  and  became  one  of 
the  most  hated  of  the  original  Commissars.  A 
mob  of  workmen  killed  him,  but  he  did  much  to¬ 
wards  launching  Bolshevism. 

“Ganetzky  (16)  for  a  long  time  acted  as  liaison 
officer  between  the  German  General  Staff  and  the 
Bolshevist  leaders,  making  innumerable  secret 
trips  between  Berlin  and  Moscow.  It  was  through 
his  efforts  that  German  military  aid  was  brought 
to  the  Red  Army.  Also  he  arranged  the  recent 
payment  to  Esthonia  of  15,000,000  gold  roubles, 
bringing  the  money  to  Reval  from  a  bank  in 
Stockholm. 

“  Lounatcharsky  (29)  is  one  of  the  few  idealists 
in  the  movement  and  the  man  through  whose  in¬ 
fluence  the  Red  Terror  was  moderated. 

“Kolontai  (30)  is  the  ‘heroine’  of  the  Bol¬ 
shevist  movement  and  her  marriage  to  Dybenko, 
leader  of  the  sailors  in  the  uprising  which  put  the 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  115 


Bolsheviks  in  power,  has  been  termed  the  ‘romance 
of  the  Revolution.’  It  took  place  shortly  after 
the  establishment  of  the  present  Government,  and 
she  and  Dybenko  went  off  on  a  kind  of  honey¬ 
moon  to  preach  in  the  Ukraine,  not  Commun¬ 
ism,  nor  Bolshevism,  but  Anarchy.  This  brought 
her  into  the  bad  graces  of  the  Soviet,  but  later 
she  modified  her  views,  and  is  now  the  Soviet 
Commissar  for  Public  Welfare.  She  is  said  to 
be  a  most  violent  personality.  Her  family  was 
noble. 

“Akselrode  (35)  is  the  man  who,  after  the 
Revolution,  closed  down  all  the  newspapers  and 
seized  their  presses.  Since  that  time  only  Bolshe¬ 
vist  newspapers  have  been  published  in  Russia. 
He  is  now  Commissar  of  the  Press. 

“Goukovsky  (50)  was  the  head  of  the  Bolshe¬ 
vist  mission  to  Esthonia,  which  was  almost  ex¬ 
clusively  Jewish.” 


Everybody,  friendly  or  unfriendly,  who  has 
come  in  contact  with  the  Bolsheviks  agrees  that 
they  are  almost  entirely  Jews.  One  of  the  first 
to  meet  them  in  an  official  capacity  was  Count 
Czernin,  the  Foreign  Minister  of  the  Dual  Mon¬ 
archy.  ‘  ‘  Their  leaders,  ’  ’  says  the  Count  in  a  letter 
written  in  November,  1917,  “are  almost  all  of  them 
Jews  with  altogether  fantastic  ideas,  and  I  do  not 


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envy  the  country  that  is  governed  by  them.”  Of 
the  Bolsheviks  who  took  part  in  the  Brest-Litovsk 
negotiations  Trotsky  was  the  one  who  most  im¬ 
pressed  the  Count.  “Trotsky,”  he  says,  “is  un¬ 
doubtedly  an  interesting,  clever  fellow  and  a  very 
dangerous  adversary.  He  is  quite  exceptionally 
gifted  as  a  speaker,  with  a  swiftness  and  adroitness 
in  retort  which  I  have  rarely  seen,  and  has,  more¬ 
over,  all  the  insolent  boldness  of  his  race.”  This 
was  in  the  humiliating  days  of  Brest-Litovsk. 
What  must  now  be  the  arrogance  of  Trotsky,  the 
conqueror  of  Koltchak,  Judenitch,  Denikin,  and, 
the  organizer  of  victory,  and  the  prime  instrument 
in  bringing  England  and  her  Allies  nearer  and 
nearer  to  the  peace  table ! 

Here  is  another  piece  of  evidence  one  takes  at 
random  out  of  many.  In  the  inquiry  into  Bolshe¬ 
vist  propaganda  by  the  Committee  of  the  Judiciary 
of  the  United  States,  evidence  was  given  by  Mr. 
R.  B.  Dennis,  a  teacher  in  North-western  Uni¬ 
versity,  who  had  worked  in  Russia  from  November, 
1917,  to  September,  1918,  first  for  the  American 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  since  April  in  the  Consular 
Service.  He  had  been  all  over  Russia,  in  Rostov, 
Kharkoff,  Moscow,  Nijni  Novgorod,  and  Petro- 
grad.  He  says : 


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‘  ‘  A  thing  that  interested  me  very  much  was  to 
discover  a  number  of  men  in  positions  of  power, 
Commissaries  in  the  cities  here  and  there  in  Russia, 
who  had  lived  in  America  ...  in  the  industrial 
centres.  I  met  a  number  of  them,  and  I  sat  around 
and  listened  to  attacks  upon  America  that  I  would 
not  take  from  any  man  in  this  country. 

“Senator  Wolcott — In  the  main,  of  what  na¬ 
tionality  were  they? 

“Mr.  Dennis — Russian  Hebrews.” 


But  perhaps  the  most  impressive  piece  of  evi¬ 
dence  concerning  the  supremacy  of  the  Jew  in  the 
Russian  Revolution  is  that  furnished  in  a  report 
drawn  up  by  Mr.  Gerard  Shelley,  an  Englishman 
who  was  present  in  Russia  in  1918.  The  Russian 
Anarchists,  he  points  out,  are  entirely  distinct 
from  the  Bolsheviks,  and  in  their  individualism, 
which  runs  to  extraordinary  extremes,  have  much 
more  in  common  with  the  Slav  temperament  than 
with  the  highly  concentrated  system  of  govern¬ 
ment  associated  with  Trotsky  and  his  brethren. 
These  Anarchists  took  a  number  of  buildings,  both 
in  Moscow  and  Petrograd,  which  they  used  for 
teaching  and  other  purposes.  Their  principal 
lecturer  was  the  well-known  Anarchist,  Lev 
Cherny,  and  Mr.  Shelley  attended  a  series  of 


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lectures  delivered  by  him  in  the  Officers’  Eco¬ 
nomic  Society  in  Moscow  in  April,  1918.  These 
lectures  caused  tremendous  excitement,  particu¬ 
larly  the  last  of  them,  in  which  the  lecturer 
dealt  with  the  Bolsheviks.  He  pointed  out  that 
Marxism,  on  which  Bolshevism  is  founded, 
really  did  not  express  the  political  side  of  the 
Russian  character,  and  that  the  Bolsheviks  were 
not  sincere  Socialists  or  Communists,  but  Jews, 
working  for  the  ulterior  motives  of  Judaism. 
Lev  Cherny  divided  these  Jews  into  three  main 
classes — firstly,  financial  Jews,  who  dabbled  in 
muddy  international  waters;  secondly,  Zionists, 
whose  aims  are,  of  course,  well  known;  and, 
thirdly,  the  Bolsheviks,  including  the  Jewish  Bund. 
The  creed  of  these  Bolsheviks,  according  to  the 
lecturer,  is  briefly,  that  the  proletariat  of  all 
countries  are  nothing  but  gelatinous  masses,  which, 
if  the  Intelligentsia  were  destroyed  in  each  country, 
would  leave  these  masses  at  the  mercy  of  the 
Jews. 

Now  comes  the  extraordinary  sequel.  On  the 
very  night  on  which  this  last  lecture  was  delivered 
the  Bolsheviks  attacked  with  cannon,  cavalry, 
and  machine-guns  all  the  Anarchist  headquarters 
both  in  Moscow  and  Petrograd,  and  murdered  all 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  119 

the  men  they  could  find,  Lev  Cherny,  however, 
escaping. 

As  regards  the  programme  of  these  Bolshevist 
Jews,  a  very  interesting  document  was  published 
by  the  Gazette  de  Hollande  at  the  end  of  March, 
1919.  It  contained  detailed  instructions  to  Bol¬ 
shevist  agents  abroad  drawn  up  at  a  Council  held 
at  the  Kremlin  in  November,  1918,  at  which  Lenin 
presided,  and  Trotsky,  Radek,  and  Tchicherin 
were  present.  A  copy  of  this  document  fell  into 
the  hands  of  the  Ukrainian  General  Staff,  and  the 
translation  we  take  from  M.  Miliukov’s  illuminat¬ 
ing  book  on  Bolshevism.  In  parallel  columns  we 
give  the  Bolshevist  proposals  for  direct  action, 
drawn  up  in  1918,  and  the  rules  of  conduct  laid 
down  by  the  “Elders  of  Zion”  in  1897: 


Revolutionary  Work 
of  the  Bolshevist 
(Communist)  Party. 

The  work  of  the  Bolshevist 
organizations  in  foreign  coun¬ 
tries  is  defined  as  follows. 


1.  In  the  domain  of  inter 
national  politics : 


Protocols  of  the 
“Learned  Elders  of 
Zion." 

Our  international  million¬ 
eyed  agents,  who  are  possessed 
of  absolutely  unlimited  means 
(Protocol  2).  We  must  not 
stop  short  before  bribery, 
deceit,  and  treachery  (Protocol 

1). 

The  intensification  of  arma¬ 
ments,  the  increase  of  police 


120  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


(a)  To  support  Chauvinist 
movements  and  national  con¬ 
flicts. 

(b)  To  provoke  agitation  in 
order  to  bring  about  national 
conflicts. 

( c )  To  make  attempts  on 
the  representatives  of  foreign 
Powers. 

By  these  means  internal  dis¬ 
turbances  and  coups  d'etat  will 
be  brought  about,  and  there 
will  be  increased  Social  Demo¬ 
cratic  agitation. 


2.  In  the  domain  of  internal 
politics : 

(a)  To  compromise  by  all 
possible  means  the  influential 
men  in  the  country,  to  make 
attempts  on  the  men  in  power, 
and  to  provoke  agitation 
against  the  Government. 

( b )  To  provoke  general  and 
partial  strikes,  to  damage  ma¬ 
chinery  and  boilers,  and  to 
spread  propagandist  literature. 

By  these  means  coups  d'etat 
will  be  facilitated,  and  it  will  be 
possible  to  seize  the  supreme 
power. 


forces  are  all  essential.  .  .  . 
Throughout  all  Europe,  and 
by  means  of  relations  with 
Europe  in  other  continents 
also,  we  must  create  ferments, 
discords,  and  hostility.  .  .  . 
We  must  be  in  a  position  to 
respond  to  every  act  of  opposi¬ 
tion  by  war  with  the  neigh¬ 
bours  of  that  country  which 
dares  to  oppose  us;  but  if  these 
neighbours  also  should  venture 
to  stand  collectively  against  us, 
then  we  must  offer  resistance 
by  a  universal  war  (Protocol 
7).  We  have  broken  the 
prestige  of  the  goyim  kings  by 
frequent  attempts  upon  their 
lives  through  our  agents  (Pro¬ 
tocol  18). 

In  order  that  our  scheme 
may  produce  this  result,  we 
shall  arrange  elections  in 
favour  of  such  presidents  as 
have  in  their  past  some  dark 
undiscovered  stain,  some 
“  Panama  ”  or  other  .  .  .then 
they  will  be  trustworthy  agents 
for  the  accomplishment  of  our 
plans  out  of  fear  of  revelations 
(Protocol  10). 

We  appear  on  the  scene 
as  alleged  saviours  of  the 
worker  from  this  oppression 
when  we  propose  to  him  to 
enter  the  ranks  of  our  fighting 
forces — Socialists,  Anarchists, 
Communists.  ...  By  want 


THE  CAUSE  OP  WORLD  UNREST  121 


3.  In  the  economic  domain: 

(a)  To  provoke  and  sup¬ 
port  railway  strikes,  to  blow 
up  bridges  and  railway  lines, 
and  do  everything  to  disorgan¬ 
ize  transport. 

( b )  To  impede  and  prevent 
the  provisioning  of  the  towns 
with  com,  to  create  financial 
difficulties  and  inundate  the 
market  with  forged  banknotes. 
Special  committees  should  be 
formed. 

In  this  way  an  economic  up¬ 
heaval  will  bring  about  the  in¬ 
evitable  collapse,  and  the  coup 
d'etat  will  receive  the  sympathy 
of  the  masses. 


and  the  envy  and  hatred  which 
it  engenders  we  shall  move  the 
mobs,  and  with  their  hands  we 
shall  wipe  out  all  those  who 
hinder  us.  When  the  hour 
strikes  for  our  sovereign  lord 
of  all  the  world  to  be  crowned, 
it  is  these  same  hands  which 
will  sweep  away  everything 
that  might  be  a  hindrance 
thereto  (Protocol  3). 

We  shall  soon  begin  to 
establish  huge  monopolies, 
reservoirs  of  colossal  riches, 
upon  which  even  large  for¬ 
tunes  of  the  goyim  will  depend 
to  such  an  extent  that  they 
will  go  to  the  bottom  together 
with  the  credit  of  the  States 
on  the  day  after  the  political 
smash  (Protocol  6).  We  shall 
replace  the  money  markets  by 
grandiose  government  credit 
institutions.  .  .  .  These  in¬ 
stitutions  will  be  in  a  position 
to  fling  upon  the  market  five 
hundred  millions  of  industrial 
paper  in  one  day  (Protocol  22). 

We  shall  create  by  all  the 
secret  subterranean  methods 
open  to  us,  and  with  the  aid 
of  gold,  which  is  all  in  our 
hands,  a  universal  economic 
crisis  whereby  we  shall  throw 
upon  the  streets  whole  mobs 
of  workers  simultaneously  in 
all  the  countries  of  Europe 
(Protocol  3). 


122  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


The  complete  annihilation 
of  the  army  will  be  effected, 
and  the  soldiers  will  adopt  the 
Social  Democratic  Labour 
programme. 


The  supreme  lord  who  will 
replace  all  now  existing  rules 
dragging  on  their  existence 
among  societies  demoralized 
by  us  .  .  .  will  be  obliged  to 
kill  off  these  existing  societies 
though  he  should  drench  them 
with  his  own  blood,  that  he 
may  resurrect  them  again  in 
the  form  of  regularly  organized 
troops  fighting  consciously  with 
every  kind  of  infection  that 
may  cover  the  body  of  the 
State  with  sores. 


So  much  for  Russia  and  the  part  which  Jews 
have  played  in  the  development  of  Bolshevist 
doctrine  and  organization. 


CHAPTER  X 


The  Russian  Revolution  overshadows,  of  course, 
all  others  of  modern  times,  and  in  a  previous  chap¬ 
ter  evidence  was  submitted  to  show  that  the  Bol¬ 
sheviks  who  engineered  it  are  in  an  overwhelming 
majority  Jews,  and  that  their  plan  of  campaign 
is  to  a  considerable  extent  based  upon  the  direc¬ 
tions  laid  down  in  the  Protocols  of  the  “Learned 
Elders  of  Zion.”  It  now  remains  to  discuss  some 
other  revolutionary  movements  in  our  day  and  to 
see  what  features  and  agents  they  had  in  common, 
and  how  far  they  can  be  traced  to  the  same  organi¬ 
zation  or  organizations  which  brought  Lenin  and 
Trotsky  to  the  Kremlin  and  made  Moscow  the 
revolutionary  storm  centre  of  the  world.  Prior  to 
and  following  the  war,  there  have  been  revolu¬ 
tions  or  serious  revolutionary  outbreaks  in  Turkey, 
Portugal,  Prussia,  Bavaria,  and  Hungary,  and 
there  have  been  serious  conspiracies  in  many  other 
countries,  notably  in  Holland,  Switzerland,  and 
only  this  year  in  France  and  Denmark.  In  all  of 


124  THE  cause  of  world  unrest 


these  foreign  influences  played  a  notable  part,  and 
the  question  arises  whether  if  these  foreign  influ¬ 
ences  had  been  absent  the  revolutions  would  have 
been  successful  or  necessary.  Because  a  revolu¬ 
tion  occurs  it  does  not  follow  that  it  was  either 
desirable  or  inevitable.  The  metaphor  of  a  bacil¬ 
lus  attacking  a  “run-down”  body  seems  to  fit.  A 
State  becomes  weak,  corrupt,  insecure,  and  im¬ 
mediately  the  revolutionary  bacilli  flock  to  the 
enfeebled  organism  and  begin  the  process  of  dis¬ 
integration.  In  some  of  these  States,  notably  in 
Bavaria  and  Hungary,  the  revolutions  had  a  short 
life,  and  the  bacilli  were  soon  expelled.  But  in 
others,  Turkey  and  Portugal,  they  came  to  stay. 
As  to  Portugal,  it  may  be  a  moot  point  to  some 
whether  their  invasion  has  been  to  the  benefit  of 
the  State.  But  in  Turkey  there  can  be  no  doubt. 
The  revolutionaries  who  seized  Constantinople  and 
deposed  Abdul  Hamid  sold  their  country  in  bond¬ 
age  to  the  German.  Enver  and  Talaat  and  the 
others  were  the  willing  instruments  of  Bieberstein 
and  Wangenheim.  The  Turkish  Revolution  was 
the  knell  of  the  Turkish  Empire.  The  example  of 
Turkey,  in  a  word,  seems  to  remind  us  that  a 
revolution  may  not  be  a  healthful  though  drastic 
process  but  a  scourge. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  125 


The  Turkish  Revolution,  it  can  be  stated  em¬ 
phatically,  was  almost  entirely  the  work  of  a 
Masonic- Jewish  conspiracy.  The  Young  Turks, 
who  consisted  chiefly  of  Jews,  Greeks,  and  Ar¬ 
menians,  did  not  meet  in  the  beginning  with  much 
success  in  their  schemes,  and  it  was  not  until  they 
came  in  contact  with  Continental  Freemasonry 
that  things  began  to  move.  The  following  quo¬ 
tation  from  the  well-known  French  Masonic  re¬ 
view  Acacia  (October,  1908,  No.  70)  explains 
succinctly^  what  was  going  on: 

“A  secret  Young  Turk  Committee  was  founded, 
and  the  whole  movement  was  directed  from  Salon¬ 
ika,  as  the  town  which  has  the  greatest  percentage 
of  Jewish  population  in  Europe — 70,000  Jews  out 
of  a  total  population  of  110,000 — was  specially 
qualified  for  this  purpose.  Resides,  there  were 
many  Freemason  lodges  in  Salonika  in  which  the 
revolutionaries  could  work  undisturbed.  These 
lodges  were  under  the  protection  of  European 
diplomacy,  the  Sultan  was  defenceless  against 
them,  and  he  could  not  any  more  prevent  his  own 
downfall.” 

Indeed,  one  can  go  so  far  as  to  say  that  the 
Committee  of  Union  and  Progress  was  practically 
born  in  the  Masonic  lodge  called  “Macedonia 


126  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 

Risorta”  established  by  the  Salonika  Jew,  Em- 
manuele  Carasso.  The  same  review  to  which  we 
have  referred  above  mentioned  in  1907  that  though 
Freemasonry  was  forbidden  in  Turkey  there  were 
two  lodges  in  Salonika  under  the  Grand  Orient  of 
Italy,  the  one  we  have  mentioned  above,  and  the 
other  the  Lodge  “  Labor  et  Lux.”  It  is  interesting 
to  note  that  Carasso  afterwards  formed  part  of 
the  Commission  that  deposed  Abdul  Hamid. 

Further  information  concerning  the  part  that 
these  Masonic  lodges  played  in  the  Revolution  is 
given  in  an  interview  which  the  Paris  Temps  of 
August  20,  1908,  published  with  Refik  Bey,  one 
of  the  leading  members  of  the  Committee  of  Union 
and  Progress.  The  correspondent  of  the  Temps 
asked  him  about  the  part  played  by  Freemasonry 
in  the  Revolution,  and  he  replied: 

“It  is  true  that  we  found  moral  support  in  Free¬ 
masonry,  especially  in  Italian  Freemasonry.  The 
two  Italian  lodges,  ‘Macedonia  Risorta’  and 
‘  Labor  et  Lux,  ’  rendered  us  real  service  and  offered 
us  a  refuge.  We  met  there  as  Masons,  for  many 
of  us  are  Freemasons,  but  in  reality  we  met  to 
organize  ourselves.  Besides,  we  chose  a  great 
part  of  our  comrades  from  these  lodges,  which 
served  our  Committee  as  a  sifting-machine  by 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  127 


reason  of  the  care  with  which  they  made  their 
inquiries  about  individuals.  At  Constantinople, 
the  secret  work  that  went  on  at  Salonika  was 
vaguely  suspected,  and  police  agents  tried  in  vain 
to  obtain  an  entrance.  Besides,  these  lodges 
applied  to  the  Grand  Orient  of  Italy,  which  prom¬ 
ised  in  case  of  need  to  procure  the  intervention  of 
the  Italian  Embassy.” 

The  Committee  of  Union  and  Progress  retained 
after  the  Revolution  its  Masonic  and  largely  Jew¬ 
ish  character.  As  a  striking  instance  of  its  influ¬ 
ence,  we  may  mention  that  Ahmed  Riza  Bey,  the 
President  of  the  Chamber,  refused  to  use  the  word 
“Allah”  in  taking  the  oath  prescribed  by  the 
Constitution,  on  the  ground  that,  like  Senhor 
Machado  in  Portugal,  he  was  a  Positivist.  Here, 
then,  is  a  curious  link  between  revolutionary 
Portugal  and  revolutionary  Turkey. 

Then  came  the  counter-revolution  of  1909,  and 
it  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  mutinous  out¬ 
break  of  April  13th  of  that  year,  which  was  attrib¬ 
uted  by  the  Committee  to  Abdul  Hamid,  was 
really  led  by  troops  of  the  Salonika  Committee 
commanded  by  a  Salonika  Jew  and  Freemason, 
Colonel  Renzi  Bey.  At  any  rate,  immediately 
after  the  crushing  of  the  counter-revolution  the 


128  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Jewish  elements  of  the  Committee  of  Union  and 
Progress  acquired  more  and  more  importance. 
Djavid  Bey,  the  Finance  Minister;  Talaat  Bey, 
the  President  of  the  Committee  Party,  who  was 
perhaps  more  responsible  than  anyone  else  for 
handing  over  Turkey  to  Germany  and  thus  en¬ 
compassing  her  ruin;  Djahid  Bey,  Editor  of  the 
Tanin ,  were  all  Masons,  and  the  first  named  was 
a  Jew.  Political  Masonic  lodges  sprang  up  like 
mushrooms  all  over  Constantinople,  and  on  April 
ist  of  that  year  (1909),  representatives  of  45 
Turkish  lodges  met  in  Constantinople  and  founded 
the  '‘Grand  Orient  Ottoman.”  Mahomed  Orphi 
Pasha  was  elected  Grand  Master,  and  the  follow¬ 
ing  “Turks”  were  elected  among  the  highest 
officials:  David  Cohen,  Raphaelo  Ricci,  Nicholas 
Forte,  Marchione,  Jacob  Souhami,  George  Sur- 
sock.  The  Jew  Djavid  Bey,  who  later  became 
Turkish  Minister  of  Finance  was  elected  Master 
of  one  of  the  Constantinople  lodges. 

Terrorism  and  intimidation  of  every  kind  fol¬ 
lowed,  and  here  Constantinople  links  itself  up 
with  Moscow  and  Budapest.  The  Ministry  of 
Police  was  abolished  and  replaced  by  a  “Public 
Security  Department”  on  French  Republican 
lines,  and  put  under  the  direction  of  Ghalid  Bey, 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  129 

a  Freemason.  It  may  be  noted  that  the  imitation 
of  the  French  Revolution  in  many  ways  by  the 
Young  Turk  is  another  interesting  link  in  the 
revolutionary  chain.  For  example,  a  Committee 
Senator  proposed  to  abolish  the  word  “subject” 
and  replace  it  by  the  French  “citoyen,”  while 
the  first  “Young  Turkey”  issue  of  coins  had  the 

i/ 

motto  “Liberte,  Egalite,  Fraternite”  inscribed  on 
them. 

And  here  we  may  again  quote  from  the  first 
Protocol : 

“Far  back  in  ancient  times,  we  were  the  first  to 
cry  among  the  masses  of  the  people  the  words 
‘Liberty,  Equality,  Fraternity.’  ...  In  all 
corners  of  the  earth  the  words  ‘  Liberty,  Equality, 
Fraternity’  brought  to  our  ranks,  thanks  to  our 
blind  agents,  whole  legions  who  bore  our  banners 
with  enthusiasm.  And  all  the  time  these  words 
were  cankerworms  at  work  boring  into  the  well¬ 
being  of  the  goyim,  putting  an  end  everywhere  to 
peace,  quiet,  solidarity,  and  destroying  all  the 
foundations  of  the  goyim  States.  As  you  will  see 
later,  this  helped  us  to  our  triumph;  it  gave  us 
the  possibility,  among  other  things,  of  getting  into 
our  hands  the  master  card — the  destruction  of 
the  privileges,  or,  in  other  words,  of  the  very 
existence  of  the  aristocracy  of  the  goyim ,  that 


130  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


class  which  was  the  only  defence  peoples  and 
countries  had  against  us.  On  the  ruins  of  the  natu¬ 
ral  and  genealogical  aristocracy  of  the  goyim  we 
have  set  up  the  aristocracy  of  our  educated  class, 
headed  by  the  aristocracy  of  money.  The  quali¬ 
fications  for  this  aristocracy  we  have  established 
in  wealth,  which  is  dependent  upon  us,  and  in 
knowledge,  for  which  our  learned  elders  provide 
the  motive  force.” 

Furthermore,  the  Press  was  put  under  the  con¬ 
trol  of  the  “Directeur  de  la  Presse  Anterieur,” 
called  Nejib  Fazli  Bui,  while  the  foreign  Press  was 
handed  over  to  another  Jew.  Djavid  Bey,  the 
Minister  of  Finance,  had  a  Jewish  Mason,  Messim 
Russo,  as  chef  de  Cabinet,  and  the  Committee 
Party  in  the  Chamber  contained  ninety  Free¬ 
masons  who  voted  as  directed  by  Talaat.  Within 
the  Cabinet,  there  gradually  was  formed  an  inside 
Masonic  Cabinet  composed  of  Talaat,  Djavid,  the 
Sheik-ul-Islam,  Moussa,  Kiasim,  and  Mahmud 
Mukhtar  Bey,  Minister  of  Marine.  The  Proto¬ 
cols  speak  of  an  inner  or  a  Jewish  Masonry,  the 
true  governing  power,  and  an  outer  or  Gentile 
Masonry,  which  blindly  follows  the  lead  of  a  di¬ 
rection  it  does  not  suspect.  The  Grand  Vizier, 
Hilmi  Pasha,  who  showed  some  signs  of  rebellion, 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  131 


disappeared  and  was  replaced  by  Hakki  Pasha 
with  a  Jewish  private  secretary,  whose  brother- 
in-law,  Jacques  Menashe,  was  the  go-between  of 
Djavid  Bey,  the  Minister  of  Finance,  in  negotia¬ 
tions  for  the  loan  with  the  Bernhard  Dreyfus 
group  in  Paris,  and  in  other  matters  of  finance 
and  concession.  In  a  word,  the  Turkish  State  was 
held  in  a  Judaeo-Masonic  group  which  extended 
its  power  to  the  provinces  by  the  creation  of  a 
network  of  lodges  and  clubs. 

One  or  two  other  points  in  connection  with  the 
Turkish  Revolution  are  worth  noting.  Immedi¬ 
ately  after  the  deposition  of  Abdul  Hamid  two 
papers  were  started  in  Constantinople,  the  Ger¬ 
man- Jewish  organ,  the  Osmanischer  Lloyd ,  edited 
by  a  German  Jew,  Dr.  Moritz  Grunwald,  and  the 
Jeune  Turc ,  whose  proprietor  was  Sami  Hochberg, 
an  Ashkenazin  Freemasonic  Jew.  Both  papers 
were  upholders  of  Turkish  Masonry  and  Zionism, 
and  the  Jeune  Turc  certainly  aimed  at  the  crea¬ 
tion  of  a  Judaeo-Turkish  State  which  would  sub¬ 
jugate  the  other  populations  in  the  Turkish 
Empire. 

At  that  period,  too,  a  Jew  named  Santo  Semo, 
who  was  at  one  time  on  Sir  W.  Willcocks’s  Irri¬ 
gation  staff,  gave  conferences  in  Constantinople, 


132  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Salonika,  and  other  places,  and  strove  to  poison 
the  Turkish  mind  against  everything  British  in 
Mesopotamia.  The  “Agence  Ottomane,”  the 
“ Turkish”  official  agency  which  was  managed 
by  a  Bagdad  Jew  named  Salih  Guirgi,  was  busy 
with  the  same  game. 

It  is  unnecessary  to  emphasize  again  how  this 
combination  joined  itself  up  with  the  Germans,  but 
one  quotation  may  be  given  from  the  Salonika  corre¬ 
spondent  of  the  Morning  Post  in  a  message  from  him 
which  was  published  on  May  19,  1911.  He  said: 

“The  Army  officers  and  the  Turks  have  long 
been  displeased  at  the  prominence  acquired  by 
individuals  who  are  not  regarded  as  true  Turks, 
and  whose  connections  with  the  Jews  of  Europe 
have  been  considered  as  facilitating  Zionism.  The 
Turks  believe  Zionism  to  aim  at  the  establishment 
of  a  Jewish  State  in  Asia  Minor,  and  suspect  that 
the  Jewish  colonies  which  the  Zionists  are  planting 
in  Syria  are  destined  to  be  centres  of  foreign  and 
especially  German  influence,  for  the  Turks  have 
long  noticed  the  curious  fact  that  the  Jews,  par¬ 
ticularly  the  Ashkenazim  or  Russo-Polish-German 
Jews,  are  all  partisans  of  the  German  Empire.” 

These,  indeed,  were  prophetic  words,  and  read¬ 
ers  of  the  German  Press  will  find  any  number  of 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  133 


articles  cordially  approving  from  a  German 
point  of  view  the  creation  of  such  a  Zionist 
State. 

There  just  remains  one  more  development  to 
add.  1  ‘  Constantinople/ ’  says  one  of  the  protocols, 
“is  the  eighth  and  last  stage  towards  Jerusalem.” 
Now  one  of  the  latest  issues  of  the  Moscow  Pravda 
received  in  London  contains  the  report  of  a  meet¬ 
ing  held  recently  in  the  Great  Hall  of  the  Moscow 
Polytechnic  Museum,  during  which  Bukharin, 
speaking  on  behalf  of  the  Soviet  of  People’s  Com¬ 
missars,  declared  that  the  Bolsheviks  are  aiming 
at  the  reconstruction  of  a  great  and  powerful 
Socialist  Russia,  which  cannot  exist  if  she  does  not 
hold  the  Straits  of  Constantinople.  A  member  of 
the  audience  interrupted  the  speaker  by  crying: 
“That  is  Miliukov’s  policy.”  Bukharin  called  the 
interrupter  a  blackguard  who  does  not  wish  to 
realize  the  interests  of  proletarian  Russia.  “If 
Miliukov  would  consent  to  work  with  us  we  would 
gladly  give  him  a  place  of  honour  in  our  ranks,” 
declared  Bukharin. 

According  to  the  Daily  Express ,  Mustafa  Kemal 
Pasha  issued  from  Angora  on  July  8,  1920,  a  long 
proclamation  addressed  to  the  “Brothers  of  Islam 
and  Communist  Comrades.”  He  said: 


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“Communist  Comrades,  an  abominable  crime 
is  about  to  be  perpetrated.  The  Great  Powers 
have  decided  to  exterminate  a  fresh  victim,  whose 
blood  will  be  sucked  by  the  capitalists  of  Europe. 
Our  peasants  are  dying,  weapon  in  hand.  They 
can  be  sure  that  the  days  are  near  at  hand  when 
Islam,  the  ally  of  Communism,  will  avenge  them.” 

Later,  Mustafa  Kemal  issued  this  further  proc¬ 
lamation  ( Morning  Post ,  July  20th) : 

“We  have  armies  ready  to  march  from  Persia 
to  Anatolia.  After  the  Bolshevist  victory  in  Po¬ 
land  the  Bolsheviks  will  enter  Roumania.  The 
Roumanians  will  answer  the  call  to  arms  by  a 
general  strike.  The  Bulgars,  too,  are  ready  to 
unite  with  the  Bolsheviks.  The  aim  of  our  armies 
is  to  guard  our  independence  and  deliver  the 
capital  from  the  British.” 

In  1910  came  the  turn  of  Portugal.  Here,  again, 
there  is  overwhelming  evidence  that  the  force  at 
the  back  of  the  Revolution  was  Continental  Free¬ 
masonry.  Dr.  Friedrich  Wichtl,  in  his  book  Welt - 
freimauerei,  Welt  Revolution,  Welt-republik ,  says: 

“Some  readers  may  ask  us  which  were  then 
those  circles  which  contributed  the  most  to  the 
downfall  of  the  Portuguese  Royal  family?  They 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  135 


are  the  leading  families  of  the  >  Castros,  the  Costas, 
Cohens,  Peireras,  Ferreiras, Teixeras,  Fousesas,etc. 
They  have  many  widespread  branches  besides 
Portugal,  also  in  Spain,  Holland,  England,  etc., 
and  in  America,  where  they  occupy  prominent 
positions.  They  are  all  related  to  each  other, 
they  are  all  united  by  the  mutual  ties  of  Free- 
masonry  and  .  .  .  the  Alliance  Israelite 

Universelle.” 

This  close  connection  between  Portuguese  Re¬ 
publicanism  and  Continental  Freemasonry  was 
indeed  apparent  from  the  outbreak  of  the  Revo¬ 
lution.  Senhor  Magalhaes  Lima,  a  Masonic  Grand 
Master,  was  one  of  the  chiefs  of  the  Portuguese 
Republican  Party  and  its  delegate  in  France.  He 
was  in  Paris  during  the  outbreak  on  October  3, 
1910,  and  in  a  pamphlet  which  he  published  at 
that  time,  entitled  Republican  Portugal ,  he  said: 

“This  Revolution  will  bear  fruits,  for  the  proc¬ 
lamation  of  the  Republic  in  Portugal  will  not  be 
an  isolated  case.  It  will  have  a  world- wide  effect, 
and  first  of  all  in  Spain.” 

Another  prominent  revolutionary  was  Senhor 
Luciano  de  Castro,  a  reputed  Monarchist,  who, 
however,  did  much  to  bring  discredit  to  the  Mont- 


136  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


archy.  We  have  already  referred  to  Senhor  Ber¬ 
nardino  Machado,  the  President  of  the  Republic 
and  a  prominent  Freemason. 

The  violent  anti-Christian  character  of  the  Re¬ 
public,  particularly  in  its  early  days,  is  too  well- 
known  to  need  recapitulation.  What,  perhaps,  is 
not  so  familiar  is  the  close  connection  of  the  Ger¬ 
mans  with  the  whole  movement  and  the  use  which 
was  made  of  it  in  the  German  Press  immediately 
on  its  outbreak  for  the  purpose  of  discrediting 
England,  the  untrustworthy  ally  of  Portugal, 
which  was  unable  to  save  its  King.  Germany 
then  began  to  lay  its  grip  on  the  Portuguese  colo¬ 
nies,  just  as  she  began  to  seize  the  Turkish  admin¬ 
istration  immediately  after  the  triumph  of  the 
Young  Turks.  Readers  of  the  Lichnowsky  Apolo¬ 
gia  will  recall  how  the  former  German  Ambassador 
in  London,  in  a  deal  which  does  not  reflect  much 
credit  on  British  diplomacy  and  on  loyalty  to  an 
ally,  was  able,  early  in  1914,  to  effect  with  Great 
Britain  a  division  of  the  Portuguese  colonies  con¬ 
ditional  on  Portugal’s  acceptance.  It  was  a  daring 
move,  too,  for  a  member  of  the  Entente  Cordiale 
to  propose,  for  the  proposed  division  would  have 
seriously  jeopardized  in  favour  of  Germany  the 
French  African  possessions,  and  it  is  now  almost 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  137 


a  matter  of  history  that  strong  representations 
were  made  by  Paris  to  Sir  Edward  Grey  (as  he 
then  was)  on  the  subject.  Fortunately,  the  pro¬ 
posed  deal  never  came  off,  because  the  Wilhelm- 
strasse,  or,  rather,  the  German  General  Staff, 
fearing  that  such  a  diplomatic  agreement  might 
postpone  indefinitely  the  Great  Day,  vetoed  the 
negotiations.  But  though  Germany  refused  to 
accept  the  agreement,  she  still  kept  an  eye  on  the 
colonies,  and  through  her  friends  at  Lisbon  had 
begun  a  campaign  for  their  seizure  by  the  favour¬ 
ite  device  of  sending  missions,  which  were  actually 
in  Africa  when  the  war  broke  out. 

Thus  in  both  these  revolutions  we  see  an  alien 
movement  seizing  authority  and  overthrowing  the 
established  forms  of  Government  and  religion  and 
the  predatory  German  coming  in  to  seize  the  spoil's. 

In  the  revolutions  in  Prussia,  Bavaria,  and 
Hungary,  the  influence  of  the  alien  authority, 
which  in  this  case  is  openly  that  of  the  Bolsheviks, 
will  be  traced. 


CHAPTER  XI 


With  the  adven-t  of  the  Bolsheviks  to  power  in 
Russia,  a  new  situation  was  created  in  the  inter¬ 
national  conspiracy.  In  the  Turkish  and  Portu¬ 
guese  outbreaks,  which  have  already  been  dis¬ 
cussed,  the  Continental  Freemasons,  working 
through  their  secret  organizations,  were  the 
chosen  instruments;  with  Lenin  installed  in  Mos¬ 
cow,  and  using  Russia  as  a  platform,  Bolshevist 
emissaries  pure  and  simple  were  the  means  for 
disseminating  unrest  and  provoking  discord. 

We  will  now  deal  with  their  activities  in  Prussia, 
Bavaria,  and  Hungary.  It  is  notorious,  of  course, 
that  the  Germans  used  Bolshevism  as  a  means 
towards  their  own  victory  (witness  Brest-Litovsk), 
though  at  the  same  time  they  were  exceedingly 
uneasy  at  the  consequences  which  its  progress 
might  have  in  their  own  country.  But  the  whole 
attitude  of  Germany  towards  Bolshevism  is  very 
enigmatic,  and  in  keeping  with  German  mentality. 
Just  as  they  were  prepared  to  use  the  submarine 

138 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  139 

warfare  as  a  means  of  defeating  the  Entente  (with¬ 
out  considering  seriously  the  consequences  which 
might  follow  from  America’s  entry  into  the  war), 
so  they  are  willing  to  toy  with  Bolshevism  for  the 
purpose  of  rendering  nugatory  the  Treaty  of  Ver¬ 
sailles  (without  weighing  risk  of  the  revolution 
which  Soviet  government  might  bring  about  in 
the  Fatherland).  At  any  rate  the  possibility  of  a 
Bolshevised  Germany  must  always  be  considered 
by  the  Allies.  When  all  allowance  is  made  for 
German  duplicity,  the  present  situation  is  suffi¬ 
ciently  serious,  for  already  the  Jews  of  Moscow, 
working  through  their  emissaries  in  Germany, 
have  succeeded  to  some  extent  in  setting  Prussia 
against  Bavaria  and  town  against  country. 

Hungary  is  interesting  because  more  than  any 
other  country  it  throws  a  vivid  light  on  the  inter¬ 
national  character  of  Bolshevism.  All  the  Bol¬ 
shevist  forces  (including  those  in  England)  are 
being  called  on  to  break  down  the  Magyar  ram¬ 
part,  which  stands  resolute,  with  something  of 
the  spirit  of  the  intolerant  but  impressive  Count 
Tisza,  against  the  floods  that  are  pouring  forth 
from  the  East. 

Revolution,  when  it  came  in  Germany,  was  not 
a  new  and  isolated  event.  War  circumstances 


140  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


brought  about  revolution  first  in  Russia,  and 
Lenin’s  achievement  was  to  recognize  the  psycho¬ 
logical  moment  at  which  to  strike  for  it  there.  He 
succeeded.  But  this  success  in  Russia  was,  in  his 
eyes,  only  a  first  step  to  a  wider  success  through¬ 
out  the  world.  With  this  end  in  view,  and  revo¬ 
lution  in  Germany  especially,  he  was  ready  to 
countenance  any  inconsistency  in  Russia,  and  to 
impose  on  her  any  fresh  sacrifices.  He  was  willing, 
for  example,  to  postpone  peace  and  continue  war, 
and  did  this,  when  thereby  he  could  promote  his 
larger  policy.  Only  by  remembering  this  can  we 
understand  the  Bolshevist  manoeuvres  at  Brest- 
Litovsk,  or  their  later  designs  on  East  Prussia. 

Only  by  remembering  this,  too,  can  we  realize 
the  full  significance  of  the  revolutionary  attempts 
in  Germany.  The  fact  that  in  Russia  circum¬ 
stances  permitted  the  Revolution  to  approximate 
at  once  to  the  wholesale  scheme  of  Lenin — a 
scheme  almost  identical,  as  we  have  shown,  with 
that  of  the  Protocols — and  the  fact  that  in  Ger¬ 
many  revolution  sought  to  move  by  partial  stages 
in  accord  with  the  struggle  between  Socialist  and 
Spartacist,  these  facts  must  not  hide  the  conclu¬ 
sion  that,  in  both,  revolution  was  related  with  one 
and  the  same  conspiracy.  In  both,  as  everywhere 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  141 


else,  Lenin  is  an  opportunist  on  behalf  of  his  pro¬ 
jected  international  upheaval. 

Already  in  May  of  1918,  the  Soviet  had  an  ac¬ 
credited  agent  in  Berlin.  This  was  the  Bolshevist 
Jew,  Joffe,  who  was  Red  Ambassador  there  until 
the  beginning  of  November,  when  he  was  returned 
across  the  frontier.  The  reason  for  his  expulsion 
was  his  notorious  activities  in  league  with  the 
Spartacists,  as  well  as  with  the  extremists  among 
the  Independent  Socialists  whose  help  the  Ma¬ 
jority  Socialists  now  felt  able  to  do  without. 

These  Independents  have  not  disavowed  their 
traffic  with  Joffe,  and  through  him  with  Moscow, 
in  preparing  for  the  Revolution  in  Germany. 
Barth,  who  seems  to  have  been  the  chief  medium 
for  it,  denied  only  that  Moscow  financed  it.  Barth 
has  admitted  every  kind  of  support  and  assistance 
from  the  Bolsheviks  in  furthering  the  Revolution 
except  money.  This  denial  of  financial  help  is  not 
corroborated  by  Joffe.  The  expelled  Ambassador, 
on  the  contrary,  boasted  of  having  given  Barth 
“hundreds  of  thousands  of  marks.”  In  any  case, 
that  large  sums  were  passed  from  him  to  the  Spar¬ 
tacists  is  as  much  beyond  doubt  as  that  Joffe  had 
deep  resources  of  money  for  this  particular  revo¬ 
lution-fostering  campaign.  In  Lenin’s  own  words 


142  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


it  was  “a  chain  of  revolutions”  that  was  being 
forged,  and  in  that  chain  “the  chief  link  was  the 
German  one.”  His  artisan  Joffe,  at  work  in  Berlin 
on  the  German  link  during  the  summer  of  1918, 
is  believed  to  have  had  four  million  marks  placed 
at  his  disposal  by  the  Soviet  for  the  job. 

Joffe  had  scarcely  disappeared  from  Berlin  when 
Radek  (Sobelson)  arrived  there.  Jew  succeeded 
Jew.  Joffe  had  been  sent  as  Ambassador  to  the 
Government  of  the  Kaiser,  and  his  secret  traffic 
with  the  Spartacists  revealed  itself  gradually. 
Radek,  on  the  other  hand,  entered  Germany  by 
stealth,  and  was  Lenin’s  representative  sent  ex¬ 
plicitly  to  negotiate  with  the  Spartacists,  and 
with  the  Jew  Liebknecht  in  particular.  For 
Liebknecht  had  by  now  been  liberated  from 
prison,  and  as  between  him  and  the  revolutionary 
Government,  of  which  Noske  was  proving  the 
strong  man,  the  game  of  “pull  Devil,  pull  baker,” 
had  begun.  Radek  immediately  took  a  hand  on 
Liebknecht’s  end  of  the  rope.  On  the  last  days 
of  1918,  these  two  were  openly  advocating  a 
“Revolutionary  Communistic  Labour  Party  of 
the  German  Spartacus-band.”  On  an  early  day 
of  1919,  according  to  good  authority,  a  document 
signed  by  both  clinched  the  connection  between 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  143 


the  Moscow  and  the  Berlin  “comrades,”  Lieb- 
knecht  putting  his  name  to  it  as  prospective 
President  of  the  German  Soviet  Republic,  and 
Radek  as  accredited  Plenipotentiary  of  the  Rus¬ 
sian  Soviet  Republic. 

The  terms  of  this  alleged  pact,  which  is  believed 
to  have  been  concluded  in  the  attic  of  the  Jewess, 
Rosa  Luxembourg,  in  Berlin,  are  given  by  M. 
Paul  Miliukov.  Lenin  on  his  part  undertook 

“  I.  To  recognize  Liebknecht  as  President  of 
the  German  Soviet  Republic; 

“2.  To  furnish  important  funds  for  Spartacist 
propaganda ; 

“3.  To  place  specially  trained  agents  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Spartacists;  and 

“4.  To  order  Soviet  armies  to  take  the  offen¬ 
sive  and  cross  the  German  frontier  in  support  of 
a  simultaneous  Spartacist  rising  in  Berlin”; 

while  Liebknecht  undertook 

“  1.  To  establish  a  Soviet  Government  in  Ger¬ 
many  immediately  upon  his  advent  to  power; 

“2.  To  observe  faithfully  and  put  into  prac¬ 
tice  all  the  teachings  of  Lenin’s  doctrines;  and 

“3.  To  raise  a  Red  Army  of  500,000  men  to 
be  placed  under  the  supreme  command  of  the 
Commissary  for  War  at  Moscow.” 


144  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Eichhorn — who,  it  is  worth  remembering,  had 
been  in  Joffe’s  service  earlier — was  in  this  league, 
and  a  few  days  later  the  rising  under  his  direction 
was  scotched  by  Noske’s  troops,  and  Liebknecht 
and  Rosa  Luxembourg  were  murdered.  The  hand 
of  Moscow  in  this  attempt  was  proclaimed  abroad 
by  the  Majority  Socialist  Government  itself, 
which  threatened  reprisals  against  such  Russians 
as  should  have  been  found  to  have  shared  in  it. 
Radek  was  arrested;  but  Radek  by  this  time  had 
contrived  to  establish  some  thirty  Bolshevist  or¬ 
ganizations  throughout  Germany,  and  so,  with  him 
as  well  as  fifty  or  a  hundred  Spartacist  leaders  off 
the  scene,  the  attempted  new  revolution  of  March 
6th  to  13th  was  still  possible.  It,  too,  failed,  even 
with  the  Independents’  help,  but  it  brought  into 
the  light  once  more  the  strength  of  the  union 
between  the  German  and  the  Russian  Bolsheviks. 

All  Lenin’s  eggs  were  never  in  one  basket,  or 
even  in  half  a  dozen  baskets.  The  smashing  or 
cracking  of  them  in  one  place  or  in  six  was  re¬ 
garded  by  him  as  merely  a  local  reverse.  His 
objective  was  world- wide  revolution,  and  he  was 
pursuing  it  everywhere.  Radek’ s  activities  had 
spread  far  beyond  Berlin  and  Russia,  as  the  March 
risings  on  the  Rhine  and  in  Hamburg  and  else- 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  145 


where  proved,  and  in  Bavaria  they  had  important 
results. 

Immediately  following  the  murder  of  the  Prime 
Minister,  Kurt  Eisner  (himself  a  Jew,  Saloman 
Kusnowsky  by  name),  and  the  proclamation  of  a 
Soviet  Republic  in  Bavaria  by  the  Munich  Wom¬ 
en’s,  Peasants’,  and  Soldiers’  Council,  a  Russian 
Bolshevik  appears  prominently.  Max  Livien,  a 
Jew  of  Moscow,  was  on  the  spot,  awaiting  events 
and  preparing  for  them.  There  was  always  some 
emissary  of  Lenin  on  the  alert  at  points  of  out¬ 
break.  Livien  was  at  once  elected  a  member  of 
the  Executive  Committee,  and  he  at  once  declared 
a  policy  in  accord  with  that  of  the  Russian  Bol¬ 
sheviks.  There  was  to  be  no  Diet,  but  only  a 
proletarian  dictatorship.  Bavaria  was  to  be  al¬ 
lowed  to  work  out  its  own  scheme  of  government 
without  interference  from  Prussia.  All  over  Ger¬ 
many,  independent  Soviet  Republics  were  to  be 
set  up.  Here,  in  fact,  were  all  the  signs  of  Lenin’s 
world-revolution  policy — the  disintegration  of  the 
State,  a  Communist  subversion  of  authority,  and 
the  rule  of  Moscow  supreme.  The  Bavarian  plan 
was  only  partially  successful  from  the  beginning, 
and  in  the  end  it  failed,  but  it  dovetailed  into  the 
general  conspiracy  and  helped  it  forward. 


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146  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


It  is,  in  fact,  the  great  strength  of  Lenin’s  ma¬ 
noeuvres  that  even  when  immediately  unsuccessful 
they  dovetail  into  the  general  cause,  working  for 
its  ultimate  good.  Germany  did  not  prove  ready 
to  jump  to  the  Soviet  idea,  but  the  attempts  to 
force  her  to  it,  even  while  they  failed,  increased 
that  “attenuation  by  suffering”  through  which, 
in  Lenin’s  own  declarations,  the  peoples  through¬ 
out  the  world  could  be  brought  to  Bolshevist  heel. 

Thus,  although  Liebknecht  had  disappeared, 
Moscow  still  dallied  with  the  project,  signed  with 
him,  of  ordering  Soviet  armies  to  take  the  offen¬ 
sive  against  Germany.  That  was  only  one  of  sev¬ 
eral  offensives  contemplated,  and  in  attempting 
these  together  the  Bolsheviks  bit  off  more  than 
they  could  chew.  But  if  nothing  came  of  this  par¬ 
ticular  military  enterprise,  it  has  to  be  remem¬ 
bered  that  the  others  in  the  plan — against  the 
Allies  in  North  Russia  and  Denikin  and  Koltchak 
in  the  South — have  now  all  been  accomplished, 
largely  no  doubt  through  Allied  mistakes.  Lenin 
has  always  known  how  to  wait. 

And  circumstances  have  always  enabled  him 
when  pitted  against  other  opportunists  to  wait 
longest.  Here  let  us  recall  that  while  it  was 
Germany  who  gave  Lenin  safe  conduct  to  Russia, 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  147 


it  was  ourselves  who  introduced  Trotsky  to  his 
side  in  that  unhappy  country.  Against  the  single 
purpose  which  those  errors  aided,  hand-to-mouth 
policies  had  no  chance;  and  the  aid  lent  to  world- 
revolutions  by  the  errors  was  so  timely  that  the 
speculation  is  unavoidable  whether  they  were  not 
deliberately  directed  to  this  end.  The  question 
may  well  be  asked  how  it  came  about  that 
Lenin  and  Trotsky  were  allowed  to  foregather  in 
Russia  just  in  the  nick  of  time  for  their  grandiose 
design. 

The  German  Governments — both  the  Imperial 
before  the  Revolution  and  those  that  came  after 
it — played  an  opportunist  game  with  Lenin  as  he 
with  them,  but  he  played  it  better.  We  have 
Trotsky’s  account  of  Brest-Litovsk,  and  how  Mos¬ 
cow  bided  its  time  while  that  apparent  victory  for 
the  ex-Kaiser’s  policy  worked  out  to  its  undoing. 
His  Socialist  successors  have  similarly  played  fast 
and  loose  with  the  Bolsheviks,  according  as  the 
Spartacist  fortunes  seemed  to  allow  them  to  flout 
Moscow  or  to  favour  it.  The  game  is  not  finished. 
Lenin’s  chief  pawn  in  it  is  the  Third  International, 
the  creation  of  which,  through  the  defeat  of  its 
predecessors,  has  been  his  constant  aim  throughout 
the  war  and  since;  and  it  is  significant  that  revo- 


148  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


lution  in  Germany  is  specifically  set  by  the  Third 
International  in  the  forefront  of  the  Revolutions 
which  it  was  pledged  to  foster.  The  Bolshevist 
hand  was  detected,  by  the  most  competent  ob¬ 
servers,  in  the  Kapp  rising,  and  this  Mon¬ 
archist  failure  strengthened  the  Spartacist  cause 
in  Germany.  We  can  trace  the  same  design  in 
still  more  recent  events,  such  as  the  Bolshe¬ 
vist  order  which  has  gone  forth  for  the  expul¬ 
sion  of  so  influential  a  rival  as  Kautsky  from 
the  ranks  of  the  German  Independent  Socialists. 
This  is  to  be  interpreted  as  a  renewal  of  confidence 
in  Moscow,  following  on  successes  against  Poland 
to  take  a  directing  hand  in  German  revolutionary 
politics. 

The  Revolution  in  Hungary  is  particularly  in¬ 
structive.  Here  the  Bolsheviks  made  clever  use 
of  the  exasperation  aroused  in  a  proud  country  by 
peace  conditions  which  placed  it  in  a  position  of 
inferiority  to  its  ancient  and  despised  enemies. 
Bolsheviks  make  use  of  any  weapon,  even  the 
nationalism  which  is  their  main  obstacle.  If  a 
principle  or  a  prejudice  has  possibilities  they  use 
it;  when  it  has  served  its  purpose  they  throw  it 
aside.  This  dexterous  inconsistency  is  one  of  the 
secrets  of  their  power.  The  appeal  to  nationalism 


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was  for  the  time  being  successful  in  Hungary,  just 
as  no  doubt  Lenin  hopes  he  will  have  a  similar 
result  from  the  appeal  he  is  at  present  making  to 
the  reviving  national  spirit  in  Russia,  as  shown 
in  the  talk  about  recovering  Russian  territories 
in  Poland  and  the  revival  of  the  claims  to 
Constantinople. 

The  “National  Council’ ’  which,  it  will  be  re¬ 
membered,  overthrew  the  Hungarian  Government, 
was  composed,  according  to  Mr.  Ashmead-Bart- 
lett,  the  special  correspondent  of  the  Daily  Tele¬ 
graph ,  of  the  leaders  of  the  Radical  wing  of  the 
Old  Independent  Party,  the  Jewish  Maffia  and 
the  Social  Democrats.  The  ground  had  been  care¬ 
fully  prepared  by  Jewish-Bolshevist  propaganda, 
and  according  to  an  account  of  it  written  by  an 
Hungarian  lady,  Mile.  Charlotte  Geocze,  who  at 
the  time  of  writing  was  obviously  unaware  of  the 
existence  of  the  Protocols,  it  bears  a  striking  re¬ 
semblance  to  the  plan  of  campaign  outlined  by 
the  “Learned  Elders  of  Zion.”  In  a  series  of 
articles  edited  by  the  former  Hungarian  Prime 
Minister,  M.  Huszar,  the  writer  of  one  of  them, 
the  editor  of  the  Nenzeti  Ujsag,  emphatically  de¬ 
clares  in  that  connection  that  Bolshevism  cannot 
be  explained  alone  by  the  revolutionary  spirit  in 


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the  air  and  by  the  economic  crisis  occasioned  by 
the  war,  unless  at  the  same  time  one  accepts  the 
fact  that  its  moving  force  is  the  tenacious  and 
secret  solidarity  of  the  Jews.  A  further  point 
made  is  the  continuous  immigration  of  Russian 
Jews  into  Hungary  from  the  East,  which  proceeded 
in  a  regular  rotation;  Jews  settling  down  among 
the  Ruthenians  as  money  lenders,  ruining  the 
peasants  and  then  returning  home.  A  particular 
race  of  Jews,  the  Khozar,  took  a  prominent  part 
in  this  movement. 

Bela  Kun,  the  leader  of  the  Hungarian  Bolshe¬ 
viks,  was  a  Jew,  and  nearly  all  his  ministers,  like 
Friedlander,  Wertheim,  Dorscak,  and  Kohn,  were 
also  Jews.  Kun  was  in  close  touch  with  Lenin, 
and  was  directly  inspired  by  him  in  all  his  acts. 
Wireless  communication  was  maintained  between 
Moscow  and  Budapest,  and  some  of  the  messages 
thus  exchanged  made  exceedingly  interesting  read¬ 
ing.  In  a  well-known  message  of  greeting  Lenin 
was  informed: 

“The  Hungarian  Proletariat,  which  yesterday 
took  the  entire  State  power  into  its  hands,  has 
introduced  the  Dictatorship  of  the  Proletariat  into 
the  country,  and  greets  you  as  the  leader  of  the 
International  Proletariat 


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Many  of  these  messages  are  to  be  found  in  the 
book,  Secret  Documents  of  the  Bolshevist  Propa¬ 
ganda,  compiled  by  Professor  Szabo,  of  Hungary, 
and  published  in  Budapest  over  a  year  ago.  One 
message  from  Tchicherin,  the  Bolshevist  Com¬ 
missary  of  Foreign  Affairs,  to  Bela  Kun,  sent  in 
cypher,  with  reference  to  preparing  the  soil  in 
London,  says: 

‘‘It  would  be  useful  to  get  into  touch  with  the 
Russian  People’s  Information  Bureau  in  London. 
You  could  best  do  this  by  means  of  Sylvia  Pank- 
hurst,  whom  you  can  approach  through  the  Daily 
Herald .” 

In  the  Daily  Herald  of  there  recently  appeared 
the  following: 

“Mrs.  Despard,  Robert  Dell,  and  Harold  Gren¬ 
fell,  as  the  ‘Donors’  Committee’  of  the  People’s 
Russian  Information  Bureau,  are  asking  for  £500 
to  clear  off  outstanding  liabilities  and  the  estimated 
deficit  on  the  next  year’s  work  of  the  Bureau. 
The  Bureau,  as  most  of  our  readers  know,  exists 
to  circulate,  collect,  and  tabulate  information  on 
the  Russian  situation.” 

Mrs.  Despard  is  well  known.  Mr.  Dell  was 
formerly  Paris  correspondent  of  the  Manchester 


152  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Guardian,  and  was  requested  by  the  French 
Government  to  leave  Paris  during  the  war.  Mr. 
Grenfell  was  formerly  in  the  Navy  and  attached  to 
the  Embassy  in  Petrograd.  He  was  the  subject  of 
a  question  addressed  to  the  Prime  Minister  by  Mr. 
Raper  in  the  House  of  Commons  on  July  ist,  1920. 
Mr.  Raper  supplemented  his  question  by  asking 
Mr.  Bonar  Law  if  he  was  aware  that  documents 
had  recently  been  sent  to  London  by  the  British 
Minister  in  Finland  implicating  General  Sir  Hubert 
Gough,  head  of  the  late  Inter-Allied  Military 
Mission  to  Finland,  also  Commander  Grenfell, 
and  Professor  Cotter,  “as  being  associated  with 
a  notorious  Bolshevist  agent  in  Helsingfors.” 
Mr.  Bonar  Law  replied  that  he  had  not  heard  of 
it,  and  subsequently,  on  July  13th,  in  reply  to  a 
further  question  by  Mr.  Raper,  the  Leader  of  the 
House  said  that  he  had  read  the  letters  referred 
to,  but  did  not  think  that  they  called  for  any 
action. 

The  overthrow  of  Bela  Kun  was  one  of  the 
severest  blows  dealt  at  Bolshevism,  but  it  is  worth 
while  noting  that  General  Smuts  was  entrusted 
with  one  of  those  amazing  Prinkipo  missions  for 
the  purpose  of  coming  to  some  understanding  with 
the  Bolsheviks  before  the  French  and  the  other 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  153 


Allies  were  allowed  to  advance  on  and  occupy 
Budapest. 

The  campaign  led  by  the  Bolsheviks  against 
Hungary  ever  since  the  return  of  civilized  govern¬ 
ment  has  been  extraordinarily  malevolent  and 
widespread.  Bela  Kun’s  Jews,  imported  from 
Russia,  carried  out  appalling  atrocities  during 
their  tenure  of  power,  and  on  his  expulsion  there 
were  some  sporadic  massacres  organized  by  infu¬ 
riated  Hungarian  officers,  whose  womenfolk  had 
been  shamefully  maltreated.  But  the  Govern¬ 
ment  did,  and  is  doing,  all  in  its  power  to  check 
any  such  excesses.  Notwithstanding  that  fact, 
the  pro-Bolshevik  papers  in  Europe,  including 
those  in  England,  were  deluged  with  lurid  accounts 
of  atrocities  committed  by  the  anti-Bolshevik 
Hungarians.  So  persistent  were  these  reports  that 
official  inquiries  were  made  by  the  Allied  Missions 
in  Budapest,  and  their  conclusions,  which  were 
published  in  a  British  White  Paper,  were  to  the 
effect  that  there  were  practically  no  atrocities  at 
all,  and  that  instead  of  thousands  being  massacred 
not  more  than  fifty  had  been  put  to  death.  Yet 
in  spite  of  this  exposure,  international  labour  has 
decided  on  a  boycott  of  Hungary,  though  in  the 
same  breath  it  objects  to  any  anti-Bolshevik 


154  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


measures  against  Russia  on  the  ground  that  it 
would  be  interfering  in  the  internal  affairs  of 
another  country. 

In  both  Germany  and  Hungary  and,  since  the 
writing  of  this  paper,  also  in  Poland,  the  Jews  of 
Moscow  have  suffered  checks,  but  the  battle  has 
not  yet  been  fought  to  a  conclusion. 

Revolutionary  movements,  both  prior  and  sub¬ 
sequent  to  the  war,  have  now  been  analyzed,  and 
evidence  of  a  common  design,  of  a  universal  con¬ 
spiracy,  operating  secretly  through  Freemasons 
and  openly  through  Bolsheviks,  has  been  put 
forward. 


CHAPTER  XII 


To  describe  the  unofficial  activities  of  the  Jews  in 
Paris  would  be  to  describe  the  work  of  the  Con¬ 
ference.  Mr.  Wilson  was  surrounded  by  them; 
even  M.  Clemenceau  had  his  watch-dogs;  and  as 
for  the  British  delegation,  one  has  only  to  mention 
the  names  of  Lord  Reading  and  Mr.  Montagu 
and  the  close  interest  they  took  in  the  delibera¬ 
tions.  Indeed,  it  will  be  remembered  that  there 
was  a  strong  movement  to  include  the  Lord  Chief 
Justice  in  the  original  delegation,  but,  owing  to 
the  strong  opposition  aroused  in  this  country, 
nothing  came  of  it. 

Now  the  statesmen  of  Paris,  like  the  Bolsheviks, 
were  guided  by  general  principles.  That  is  the 
dominant,  the  peculiar  feature  of  the  Peace  Con¬ 
ference  at  Paris.  And  in  that  connection  let  us 
quote  from  the  History  of  the  Peace  Conference , 
the  first  volume  of  which  has  just  been  issued 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Institute  of  International 
Affairs.  The  concluding  paragraph  of  an  interest- 

155 


156  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


ing  chapter  on  the  Bolshevist  attitude  at  Brest- 
Litovsk  is  as  follows:  1 


“Thus  by  the  close  of  the  year  it  was  evident 
that  the  demand  for  evacuation  and  the  right  of 
self-determination  meant  for  the  Bolsheviks  no¬ 
thing  but  the  right  of  ‘bolshevising,’  and  the  appeal 
of  their  peace  formulae  at  Brest  had  long  since 
lost  its  original  force.  Yet,  in  their  arguments 
with  the  Germans,  they  had  applied  self-deter¬ 
mination  in  a  bold  and  far-reaching  way,  that 
remained  not  without  influence  in  many  quarters ; 
Ireland  and  Bosnia,  Egypt,  India,  and  Persia  ap¬ 
peared  along  with  Posen  and  Alsace-Lorraine  and 
Armenia.  The  Russian  catchword  of  ‘peace  with¬ 
out  annexations  or  indemnities,’  which  the  Bol¬ 
sheviks  had  taken  over  and  amplified,  had  made 
a  deep,  if  indefinite,  impression.  The  demand  for 
no  economic  boycotts  figured  among  the  war  aims 
of  many  anti-Bolshevist  bodies  of  opinion,  and 
the  precedent  of  the  attempt  to  realize  ‘no  secret 
diplomacy  ’  was  not  forgotten.  The  effect  of  these 
ideas  was  conflicting,  and  to  a  large  extent  impal¬ 
pable,  and  they  had  become  in  the  main  divested  of 
any  specifically  Bolshevist  setting,  but,  in  conjunc¬ 
tion  with  President  Wilson’s  enunciation  of  princi¬ 
ples,  they  coloured  the  minds  and  imaginations  of 
such  numbers  that  they  exercised  an  immediate  and 
profound  influence  upon  the  Peace  Conference.” 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  157 


It  is  not  by  any  means  the  first  time  that  the 
principles  enunciated  by  President  Wilson  have 
been  linked  up  with  the  new  gospel  which  is 
being  preached  at  Moscow.  Indeed,  there  is  rea¬ 
son  to  believe  that  a  famous  European  statesman, 
smarting  under  the  indifference  of  the  Paris  Mount 
Sinai  to  the  grievances  of  his  country,  bluntly 
told  the  President  that  he  and  Lenin  were  preach¬ 
ing  the  same  doctrine,  and  that  between  the 
Fourteen  Points  and  the  Kremlin  manifestoes 
there  was  little  to  choose.  And  really  if  judged 
by  their  distintegrating  force,  there  is  little  to 
choose  between  the  one  set  of  pontifical  ex¬ 
plosives  and  the  other.  A  Sinn  Feiner  or  an 
Egyptian  Nationalist  can  justify  murder  from 
either,  and  “making  the  world  safe  for  democracy” 
and  “the  dictatorship  of  the  proletariat”  sound 
equally  sweet  in  a  rebel’s  ear.  Common  to  both 
Washington  and  Moscow  is  the  necessity  of  an 
international  control  of  the  world;  to  one  it  is  the 
League  of  Nations,  to  the  other  it  is  the  Third  In¬ 
ternationale.  The  idea  is  the  same  though  the 
instruments  are  different. 

And  it  is  difficult  to  estimate  who  shouted  the 
louder  cry  of  self-determination.  Trotsky  and 
his  Jews  were  ready  to  barter  away  the  whole 


158  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Russian  Empire  for  the  sake  of  this  holy  principle. 
Why  ?  Because  like  the  ‘  ‘  Learned  Elders  of  Zion’  ’ 
they  saw  beyond  the  ignorant  present.  At  the 
time  of  Brest-Litovsk  the  application  of  any 
principle  to  the  Russian  Empire,  shattered  by  war 
and  under  the  menace  of  Hoffman’s  whip,  really 
did  not  matter  very  much.  But  what  about  the 
British  Empire,  and  its  diverse  nationalities  all  in 
different  stages  of  political  development?  Such  a 
principle  skilfully  applied  might  have  all  the  mys¬ 
terious  effects  of  an  arsenical  dose.  The  need  for 
some  such  doctrinal  poison  was  all  the  more  neces¬ 
sary  because  to  the  surprise  and  disappointment 
of  the  Bolsheviks  the  war  did  not  end  in  a  draw, 
but  in  an  overwhelming  victory  for  the  Entente 
Powers.  Accordingly  the  parrot  cry  of  self-deter¬ 
mination  was  used  for  all  it  was  worth,  and  to  the 
intense  gratification  of  Moscow  was  taken  up  in 
Washington,  and  in  many  a  sonorous  sentence 
was  commended  to  French  Senators  and  British 
working  men. 

It  worked,  and  is  working  extraordinarily  well, 
in  Ireland,  Egypt,  India,  and,  who  knows,  perhaps 
soon  in  Central  Africa.  The  only  place  where 
apparently  it  is  not  allowed  to  work  is  Palestine, 
where  less  than  twenty  per  cent,  of  Jews  under  Sir 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  159 


Herbert  Samuel  are  providing  themselves  with  a 
national  home  at  the  expense  of  eighty  per  cent, 
of  Arabs.  To  sacrifice  an  Empire  for  a  principle 
is  surely  a  new  thing  in  political  idealism.  Self- 
determination  has  indeed  proved  the  choicest 
weapon  in  the  Bolshevist  armoury.  Trotsky  could 
afford  to  be  generous  to  Finland  if  it  meant  in 
time  the  gradual  break-up  of  the  United  Kingdom; 
he  could  scatter  constitutions  among  the  Baltic 
States  and  the  Tartars  of  the  Caucasus  if  the  news 
of  this  largesse  were  to  awaken  the  appetites  of  the 
politically  half-baked  communities  of  the  British 
Empire.  All  Trotsky’s  anticipations  have  been 
amazingly  realized  as  the  British  taxpayer  rue¬ 
fully  admits  when  he  thinks  of  the  military  bud¬ 
gets  of  Egypt,  Ireland,  Mesopotamia;  war  can  be 
fought  with  ideas  as  well  as  with  tninenwerfer. 

The  British  Empire  at  this  moment  is  in  the 
full  throes  of  the  revolutionary  trouble  bequeathed 
to  it  by  the  Peace  Conference  with  its  crude  views, 
its  mandates  and  plebiscites,  and  all  the  parapher¬ 
nalia  of  democratic  quackery.  Self-determination 
is  producing  its  monstrous  brood  all  over  the 
Empire,  but  it  is  curious  to  note  how  quiescent  it 
is  at  present  in  the  lands  where  the  Bolshevist 
writ  runs.  It  is  now  on  the  ebb,  and  the  tide  is 


i6o  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


running  in  favour  of  nationalism;  witness  the 
recent  declaration  of  Bukharin  on  behalf  of  the 
Soviet  of  Peoples’  Commissions  for  the  reconstruc¬ 
tion  of  a  great  and  powerful  Socialist  Russia, 
“which  cannot  exist  if  she  does  not  hold  the  Straits 
of  Constantinople.”  Here  again  is  another  illus¬ 
tration  of  the  way  in  which  the  Bolsheviks  will  use 
a  weapon  and  then  discard  it  when  it  has  served  its 
purpose. 

It  is,  then,  a  curious  coincidence  that,  apart 
from  their  divergent  views  on  the  subject  of  capital, 
Washington  and  Moscow  should  have  so  much  in 
common.  The  trump  card  of  both  is  the  same — 
international  control — and  if  Lenin  abominates 
the  League  of  Nations,  he  does  so  because  it 
is  capitalistic,  not  because  it  is  international. 
Whence,  then,  did  Mr.  Wilson  derive  his  material? 
It  was  a  subject  which  greatly  interested  Paris 
during  the  Peace  Conference,  and  much  was 
written  about  the  eminent  Jews  who  surrounded 
the  President.  The  present  scheme  for  the 
League  of  Nations  was  originated  in  1914  at  the 
Conference  of  the  League  to  Enforce  Peace  under 
the  leadership  of  Dr.  Eliot  and  ex-President  Taft. 
The  plan  then  submitted  was  the  basis  of  the 
scheme  of  the  League  as  drafted  at  the  Paris  Con- 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  161 


ference  by  Lord  Robert  Cecil,  General  Smuts,  and 
President  Wilson.  These  names  do  not  give  war¬ 
rant  for  the  theory  that  the  League  of  Nations  as 
now  constituted  is  the  result  of  the  work  of  Jewish 
Internationals. 

During  the  war,  before  America  intervened, 
writes  “Pertinax,”  in  the  Echo  de  Paris  “was 
founded  the  American  Neutral  Conference  Com¬ 
mittee,  which  took  upon  itself  the  task  of  bringing 
about  peace  with  a  victorious  Germany.  Then 
appeared  for  the  first  time  all  the  formulae  of  the 
League  of  Nations,  the  anathemas  launched  against 
the  ‘old  diplomacy/  which  was  said  to  be  respon¬ 
sible  for  bringing  about  the  war.  On  this  point 
consult  the  work,  How  the  Diplomatists  Caused  the 
War,  written  by  Mr.  Heubsch,  the  colleague  of 
the  Neutral  Conference  Committee.” 

The  brilliant  French  writer,  M.  Charles  Maur- 
ras,  in  his  book  Les  Trois  Aspects  du  President 
Wilson  also  deals  with  this  subject — “The  decisive 
influence  exercised  on  Mr.  Wilson  by  a  very  small 
company,  financiers  by  profession,  domiciled  be¬ 
tween  Hamburg,  Frankfort,  and  New  York.” 
“They  were,”  he  says,  “identified  with  the  Asso¬ 
ciation  for  the  League  of  Free  Nations,  with  its 
seat  in  America.  M.  Maurras  goes  on  to  declare 


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1 62  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


that  Mr.  Wilson  in  time  fell  completely  under  their 
influence,  and  that  there  is  written  evidence  to 
that  effect,  and  he  is  inclined  to  the  opinion  that 
Freemasonry  was  used  as  the  channel  for  the  dis¬ 
semination  of  these  ideas. 

Here,  then,  there  opens  up  a  most  fruitful  field 
of  speculation.  But  let  us  carry  the  argument  a 
little  further.  The  principle  of  self-determination, 
as  we  have  seen,  not  only  tends  to  act  as  a  solvent 
of  existing  Empires,  but  it  also  handicapped 
seriously  the  creation  of  the  new  States  which 
were  brought  into  existence  by  the  magicians  of 
Paris.  To  imagine  that  a  nation  could  be  created 
by  a  plebiscite,  and  that  a  State  could  be  con¬ 
stituted  on  the  principle  of  nationality  alone,  with¬ 
out  securing  for  it  adequate  economic  safeguards 
and  strategic  frontiers,  was  a  fallacy  entertained 
at  Paris  which  has  had  most  unfortunate  conse¬ 
quences  for  the  peace  of  Europe.  In  Turkey,  the 
fallacy  reached  ludicrous  lengths.  An  independent 
Armenia  was  created,  and  the  guarantors  of  its 
independence  at  present  are  Viscount  Bryce  and 
the  humanitarians  of  the  world;  nobody  else  will 
touch  it. 

Moreover,  even  if  it  were  safely  constituted, 
other  believers  in  self-determination — Assyro- 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  163 

Chaldeans,  and  so  on — would  raise  claims  against 
it.  The  Hapsburg  Monarchy  has  been  divided 
into  States  all  beautifully  constituted  on  the  same 
wonderful  principle,  but  apparently  incapable  of 
standing  on  their  own  legs.  In  plain  words,  the 
Peace  Conference  was  unable  to  reach  a  political 
settlement,  and  because  there  was  no  political 
settlement  we  now  have  economic  unrest,  high 
prices,  demands  for  increased  wages,  strikes  to 
enforce  them,  and  general  Bolshevism.  The 
protocols  say : 

“We  will  create  a  universal  economical  crisis 
by  all  possible  underhand  means,  and  with  the 
help  of  gold  which  is  all  in  our  hands.” 

Now,  the  supreme  instance  of  this  attempt  to 
create  States  on  an  unsure  foundation,  and  with¬ 
out  proper  economic  and  strategic  frontiers,  is 
Poland.  Let  us  briefly  summarize  the  case  for  that 
country.  The  policy  of  France  throughout  her 
history  had  been  to  seek  some  ally  in  tJie  East  who 
would  act  as  a  check  on  any  move  by  the  German 
States  across  the  Rhine.  Turkey,  Sweden,  Russia, 
all  acted  as  that  counterpoise,  and  with  the  fall  of 
Russia  French  statesmen  looked  to  the  creation  of 
a  strong  Poland  to  serve  that  historic  purpose.  A 


164  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


strong  Poland  was,  therefore,  a  French  interest, 
and,  as  Great  Britain  is  the  ally  of  France,  pre¬ 
sumably  a  British  interest  also.  Indeed,  to  judge 
from  a  recent  quotation  by  Mr.  Lloyd  George  of 
a  speech  of  Disraeli,  a  strong  Poland  would,  in 
British  eyes,  act  as  a  check  not  only  on  Germany 
but  on  Russia. 

Now,  what  happened  at  Paris?  Strategically 
and  economically  Poland  was  compelled  to  make 
a  bad  start.  The  Polish  Commission  three  times 
reported  in  favour  of  giving  Dantzig  to  Poland,  and 
three  times  their  report  was  turned  down — by  Mr. 
Lloyd  George.  On  the  question  of  Upper  Silesia 
the  Commission  was  also  favourable  to  Poland, 
and  therein  it  was  backed  by  President  Wilson. 
But  one  fine  day  the  President  veered  round,  and 
insisted  on  a  plebiscite.  That  change  of  mind  was 
one  of  the  mysteries  of  the  Conference  which  may 
some  day  be  revealed.  The  same  story  of  a  vague, 
unsettled  conclusion  applies  to  Eastern  Galicia. 
Thus,  in  such  vital  matters  as  sea  communications, 
coal  and  oil  supply,  Poland  was  severely  handi¬ 
capped  from  the  very  beginning.  Why?  A  strong 
Poland  is  not  a  Jewish  interest.  For  on<e  thing,  how 
many  Englishmen  are  aware  of  the  enormous 
Jewish  population  which  lives  within  the  ethno- 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  165 


graphical  boundaries  of  Poland?  In  1910  the  total 
number  of  Jews  in  the  world  was,  roughly,  12,506,- 
238,  and  in  1900  almost  five  million  Jews  lived  in 
Polish  territory.  It  is  interesting,  too,  to  note  that 
since  the  Russian  Revolution  of  1905,  there  was 
a  distinct  movement  in  Poland  to  get  rid  of  the 
monopoly  exercised  by  the  Jews  in  all  commercial 
and  financial  activities  in  Poland  by  the  creation  of 
Polish  Co-operative  Societies.  It  is  perfectly  clear 
that  a  strong  national  Polish  Government  would 
further  develop  that  policy,  and  might  lead  in 
time  to  measures  which  would  by  no  means  prove 
welcome  to  the  enormous  Jewish  population  con¬ 
centrated  within  its  territories. 

Now,  a  strong  Poland  is  also  not  a  German 
interest,  and  here  the  Jews  and  the  Germans  work 
hand  in  hand.  Thus,  the  semi-official  Deutsche 
Allgemeine  Zeitung  of  January  30,  1919,  recog¬ 
nizes  openly  the  solidarity  of  German  and  Jewish 
interests.  It  goes  in  for  a  study  of  the  postu¬ 
lates,  which  are  almost  identical  to  those  we 
have  just  enumerated,  and  draws  the  following 
conclusions : 

“Considering  that  the  majority  of  the  Jewish 
population  knows  the  German  language,  and  that 


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German  civilization  is  familiar  to  them,  the  Jewish 
element  may  be  of  the  greatest  use  to  Germany 
for  the  reopening  of  those  international  relations 
which  have  been  interrupted  by  the  war.  Ger¬ 
many  will  not  cease  to  interest  herself  in  Oriental 
questions.  The  foundation  of  a  Jewish  Palestine 
must  be  greeted  with  approval.  This  will,  for 
the  reasons  quoted  above,  help  Germany  in 
ascertaining  economic  and  intellectual  links  with 
the  East. 

“The  Jewish  question  will  be  of  interest  to  Ger¬ 
many  on  account  of  her  vicinity  in  the  Near  East 
with  countries  inhabited  by  Jewish  masses.  The 
autonomy  of  the  Jews  in  the  East  is  one  of  the 
foundation-stones  of  order  and  tranquillity  in 
these  countries. 

“It  may  be  seen  (says  this  newspaper,  in  con¬ 
clusion)  that  there  is  no  contradiction  between 
the  desiderata  of  the  Jews  and  German  interests. 
For  this  reason  Germany  will  support  Jewish 
demands  at  the  Peace  Conference.” 


It  was  notorious  during  the  proceedings  of  the 
Peace  Conference  that  whenever  any  decision 
favourable  to  Poland  was  reached,  Jewish  gentry 
from  London  hurriedly  crossed  the  Channel  for 
the  purpose  of  trying  to  revoke  it. 

Thus,  as  we  have  said,  Poland,  as  created  by 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  167 


the  pundits  of  Paris,  started  badly.  Her  subse¬ 
quent  history  has  been  equally  unfortunate.  The 
Bolsheviks  were  exceedingly  anxious  to  secure 
their  grip  on  a  State  which  with  its  Christian  faith 
and  Western  traditions  barred  their  march  towards 
the  West.  In  the  letter  which  Trotsky  sent  to 
French  Socialists  as  long  ago  as  October,  1919,  and 
which  was  given  in  the  Morning  Post ,  he  made  it 
clear  in  his  bragging  way  that  Poland’s  turn  was 
to  come  next.  That  Bolshevist  offensive  was 
launched  in  March  last,  and  failed  for  reasons 
which  have  been  explained  by  Major-General 
Maurice,  the  military  critic  of  the  Daily  News. 
To  say,  then,  that  Marshal  Pilsudski  attacked 
Russia,  which  all  the  Pacifists  and  Bolsheviks  in 
England  are  trumpeting  forth  every  day,  is  untrue. 
Marshal  Pilsudski  tried  to  do  what  the  Serbians 
were  prevented  from  doing,  that  is  to  say,  to 
anticipate  the  enemy’s  offensive.  From  the  very 
beginning  of  his  attack,  a  violent  anti-Polish  cam¬ 
paign  was  started  in  England,  and  the  English 
dockers  and  railwaymen  were  called  upon  to 
prevent  the  sending  of  munitions  to  Warsaw. 

At  the  present  moment,  Russia  and  Germany 
are  joining  hands  over  the  threatened  body  of 
Poland.  If  Russia  and  Germany  are  able  to 


1 68  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


overwhelm  Poland,  the  Treaty  of  Versailles  be¬ 
comes  a  scrap  of  paper,  and  the  war  has  been 
fought  in  vain. 

Dr.  Dillon,  in  his  book  on  the  Paris  Peace  Con¬ 
ference,  says: 

“Of  all  the  collectivities  whose  interests  were 
furthered  at  the  Conference,  the  Jews  had  perhaps 
the  most  resourceful  and  certainly  the  most  in¬ 
fluential  exponents.  There  were  Jews  from  Pales¬ 
tine,  from  Poland,  Russia,  the  Ukraine,  Roumania, 
Greece,  Britain,  Holland,  and  Belgium;  but  the 
largest  and  most  brilliant  contingent  was  sent  by 
the  United  States.” 

And  with  reference  to  that  great  achievement 
of  the  Jews  at  Paris,  the  Minority  Treaties,  he 
says: 

“It  may  seem  amazing  to  some  readers,  but  it  is 
none  the  less  a  fact  that  a  considerable  number  of 
Delegates  believed  that  the  real  influences  behind 
the  Anglo-Saxon  peoples  were  Semitic.  They  con¬ 
fronted  the  President’s  proposal  on  the  subject  of 
religious  inequality,  and,  in  particular,  the  odd 
motive  alleged  for  it,  with  the  measures  for  the 
protection  of  minorities  which  he  subsequently 
imposed  on  the  lesser  States,  and  which  had  for 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  169 


their  keynote  to  satisfy  the  Jewish  elements  in 
Eastern  Europe.  And  they  concluded  that  the 
sequence  of  expedients  framed  and  enforced  in  this 
direction  were  inspired  by  the  Jews  assembled  in 
Paris  for  the  purpose  of  realizing  their  carefully 
thought-out  programme,  which  they  succeeded  in 
having  substantially  executed.  However  right  or 
wrong  these  Delegates  may  have  been  it  would  be 
a  dangerous  mistake  to  ignore  their  views,  seeing 
that  they  have  since  become  one  of  the  permanent 
elements  of  the  situation.  The  formula  into  which . 
this  policy  was  thrown  by  the  members  of  the 
Conference,  whose  countries  it  affected,  and  who 
regarded  it  as  fatal  to  the  peace  of  Eastern  Europe, 
was  this :  1  Henceforth  the  world  will  be  governed 
by  the  Anglo-Saxon  peoples,  who,  in  turn,  are 
swayed  by  their  Jewish  elements.’  ” 

It  should  be  remembered  that  the  original  claims 
of  the  Jews  went  much  further  than  those  which 
were  eventually  sanctioned  by  the  Conference. 
“The  hero  of  the  Minority  Treaties,”  to  quote  the 
phrase  of  the  Jewish  Guardian ,  the  able  and 
moderate  organ  of  Anglo-Jewry,  was  Mr.  Lucien 
Wolf — the  same  gentleman  who  has  recently  been 
attacking  the  protocols.  As  Mr.  Israel  Zangwill 
said,  “The  Minority  Treaties  were  the  touchstone 
of  the  League  of  Nations,  that  essentially  Jewish 


170  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


aspiration,  and  the  man  behind  the  Minority 
Treaties  was  Lucien  Wolf.” 

Let  us  in  conclusion  briefly  summarize  the  argu¬ 
ment  which  has  been  put  forward  above.  Bolshe¬ 
vism  and  Wilsonism  have  much  in  common — 
including  their  insistence  on  international  control 
and  on  the  principle  of  self-determination.  That 
principle  tends  to  promote  rebellion  in  the  British 
Empire,  and  at  the  same  time  to  lead  to  the  crea¬ 
tion  of  artificial  States  unprovided  by  adequate 
economic  and  strategic  safeguards.  Poland  is  an 
instance  of  such  a  State,  and  Poland  has  had  to 
face  an  opposition  in  which  Jews,  Bolsheviks, 
Germans,  and  pro-Bolsheviks  in  this  country  are 
playing  a  part.  Poland  at  this  moment  is  menaced 
with  destruction,  and  if  it  succumbs  the  Entente 
Powers  of  the  West  have  lost  the  war. 


CHAPTER  XIII 


Previous  chapters  have  dealt  with  plots  that  have  * 
come  to  full  accomplishment  either  in  success  or 
failure.  The  present  is  concerned  with  a  con¬ 
spiracy  still  in  the  making,  which  bids  fair  to  be 
more  vast  and  fraught  with  more  terrible  conse¬ 
quences  than  any  that  preceded  it.  Moreover,  it 
intimately  concerns  the  British  Empire,  though  it 
is  not  exclusively  directed  against  it.  It  is  only 
necessary  to  talk  with  any  one  who  is  well  ac¬ 
quainted  with  the  East  to  learn  beyond  all  shadow 
of  doubt  that  there  exists  throughout  the  Orient 
an  organized  intrigue  against  European  and  Chris¬ 
tian  supremacy.  If  the  person  consulted  has  made 
a  long  and  careful  study  of  the  tortuous  politics 
and  secret  tendencies  of  Asia,  the  information 
given  will  become  startling  by  its  definite  menace 
and  by  the  proof  of  the  existence  of  a  revolutionary 
organization  that  spreads  its  tentacles  from  Europe 
and  America  over  the  whole  of  North  Africa  and 
Asia. 


172  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Before  discussing  the  danger  that  must  be  faced, 
it  may  be  well  to  consider  how  far  Great  Britain, 
the  Power  most  seriously  threatened,  is  in  a  posi¬ 
tion  at  home  to  overcome  this  serious  threat. 
After  the  Russian  Revolution  a  section  of  the 
Jewish  Press  displayed  an  alarming  affection  for 
Bolshevist  ideas,  and  openly  encouraged  Bolshe¬ 
vist  propaganda  in  Great  Britain.  The  Morning 
Post  had  occasion  to  draw  attention  to  this  danger¬ 
ous  campaign,  which  was  disavowed  by  the  leading 
patriotic  Jews,  as  is  shown  by  the  following  letter 
published  in  its  columns : 

“Sir, — We  have  read  with  the  deepest  concern 
and  with  sincere  regret  certain  articles  which  have 
recently  appeared  in  two  closely  associated  Jewish 
newspapers  in  this  country  on  the  topic  of  Bolshe¬ 
vism  and  its  ‘ideals/  In  our  opinion,  the  publi¬ 
cation  of  these  articles  can  have  no  other  effect 
than  to  encourage  the  adoption  of  the  theoretic 
principles  of  Russian  Bolsheviks  among  foreign 
Jews  who  have  sought  and  found  a  refuge  in  Eng¬ 
land.  We  welcome,  accordingly,  your  suggestion 
that  British  Jews  should  ‘dissociate  themselves 
from  a  cause  which  is  doing  the  Jewish  people 
harm  in  all  parts  of  the  world.’  This  is  profoundly 
true,  and  we,  on  our  own  behalf  and  on  behalf  of 
numbers  of  British  Jews  with  whom  we  have  con- 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  173 

f erred,  desire  to  dissociate  ourselves  absolutely 
and  unreservedly  from  the  mischievous  and  mis¬ 
leading  doctrine  which  these  articles  are  calculated 
to  disseminate.  We  repudiate  them  as  dangerous 
in  themselves  and  as  false  to  the  tenets  and  teach¬ 
ings  of  Judaism. 

“Partly  in  order  to  counteract  the  mistaken 
policy  of  the  newspapers  referred  to,  the  League 
of  British  Jews  was  founded  in  November,  1917. 
The  proceedings  and  views  of  the  League  are  pub¬ 
lished  in  a  monthly  bulletin,  entitled  Jewish  Opin¬ 
ion ,  which  can  be  obtained  at  the  offices  of  the 
League,  708-709,  Salisbury  House,  E.C.2,  and 
which  may  eventually  be  merged  in  a  larger  jour¬ 
nal  appearing  at  more  frequent  intervals.  For  we 
thoroughly  concur  with  your  criticism  that  ‘the 
British  Jewish  community,  most  of  whom,’  as  you 
rightly  say,  ‘are  by  no  means  in  sympathy  with  this 
(Nationalist)  crusade,  are  being  served  very  badly 
by  their  newspapers.’  Meanwhile  we  take  this 
opportunity  of  repudiating  in  public  the  particular 
statements  in  those  newspapers  to  which  you  have 
felt  it  your  duty  to  call  attention. — Yours,  etc., 


Lionel  de  Rothschild. 

SWAYTHLING. 

Philip  Magnus. 
Marcus  Samuel. 

Harry  S.  Samuel. 

“April  22,  1919.” 


Leonard  L.  Cohen. 
I.  Gollancz. 

John  Monash. 

C.  G.  Montefiore. 
Isidore  Spielmann. 


174  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Unfortunately  the  attitude  of  these  patriots 
was  not  that  of  all  British  Jews,  and  they  were 
violently  attacked  for  their  action.  Nor  can  it  be 
said  that  the  political  behaviour  of  those  Jews  who 
have  taken  a  leading  part  in  the  Government  of 
Great  Britain  has  been  reassuring.  It  can  scarcely 
be  said  that  Sir  Alfred  Mond’s  political  achieve¬ 
ments  merit  his  inclusion  in  the  Ministry.  The 
connection  of  Lord  Reading,  our  Lord  Chief  Jus¬ 
tice,  with  the  Marconi  affair  was,  to  say  the  least 
of  it,  by  no  means  in  accordance  with  the  traditions 
of  our  public  life.  More  serious  still  is  the  appoint¬ 
ment  of  Sir  Herbert  Samuel  as  Governor  of  Pales¬ 
tine,  where  a  Jew  will  be  called  upon  to  hold  the 
balance  between  an  Arab  majority  and  a  Jewish 
minority  in  a  hot-bed  of  intrigues.  Then  Mr. 
Montagu,  despite  his  family  relationships  with  a 
firm  which  has  established  something  resembling 
a  monopoly  in  the  silver  market,  is  Secretary  for 
India. 

As  for  Mr.  Montagu’s  attitude,  he  disclosed  it  in 
a  fit  of  irritation  in  his  opening  speech  in  the  Dyer 
debate  in  the  House  of  Commons.  His  speech  was 
not  the  calm  advocacy  of  his  Government’s  policy 
which  one  has  the  right  to  expect  from  a  Minister 
of  State  whose  conscience  is  untroubled.  It  was  an 


THE  CAUSE  OP  WORLD  UNREST  175 


elaborate  extenuation  of  Indian  sedition  by  one 
who  has  confessed  himself  proud  of  the  friendship 
of  that  leader  of  rebellion,  Mr.  Gandhi,  and  Mr. 
Montagu’s  excited  denunciation  of  British  “ter¬ 
rorism”  in  India  might  take  its  place  beside  the 
striking  poster  referred  to  by  Mr.  Rupert  Gwynne : 
“Conquer  the  English  monkeys  with  bravery. 
This  is  the  command  of  Mahatma  Gandhi.  Get 
ready  soon  for  the  war,  and  God  will  grant  victory 
to  India.” 

The  idea  of  a  world  conspiracy  directed  against 
law  and  order,  and  indeed  against  Christian  civili¬ 
zation  itself,  would  before  the  war  have  seemed 
absurd  and  impossible  to  the  average  Englishman. 
The  idea  that  there  could  be  an  intimate  connec¬ 
tion,  say,  between  a  revolution  in  Portugal,  a  strike 
at  home,  and  a  murder  in  India  would  never  have 
occurred  to  any  ordinary  man  before  August,  1914. 
The  war  has  produced  a  complete  change  of  men¬ 
tality,  because  we  have  had  concrete  proof  of  close 
connection  between  rebellion  in  Ireland,  trouble  in 
Egypt,  disaffection  in  India,  revolution  in  Russia, 
to  mention  only  a  few  of  the  disorders  brought 
about  by  Germany. 

It  might  have  been  expected  that  when  the  war 
was  finished  German  propaganda  would  have 


176  THE  CAUSE  OP  WORLD  UNREST 


come  to  an  end  and  everything  returned  to  its 
previous  state  of  tranquillity.  But  it  is  becoming 
every  day  more  evident  that  the  conspiracy  against 
civilization  did  not  finish  with  the  defeat  of  Ger¬ 
many.  The  Germans  certainly  used  various  or¬ 
ganizations  against  us,  but,  as  it  has  been  our 
object  to  show,  they  never  really  controlled  or 
directed  them.  Behind  the  scenes  was  a  “  formid¬ 
able  sect”  using  the  Germans  for  their  own  ends 
instead  of  being  used  by  them,  and  when  Germany 
fell  and  German  money  disappeared,  the  conspir¬ 
acy  still  went  on  unimpeded. 

The  Germans,  when  they  sent  Lenin  to  Russia, 
availed  themselves  of  those  secret  forces  of  which 
they  had  already  made  use  against  Great  Britain. 
The  directors  of  the  secret  conspiracy  were  quite 
ready  to  use  the  Germans  for  their  own  ends  of 
poisoning  European  democracy.  Yet  the  first 
result  of  Lenin’s  journey  to  Russia  after  the  col¬ 
lapse  of  Russia  was,  as  Ludendorff  admits,  the 
downfall  of  Germany. 

Those  who  were  with  the  Allied  troops  after  the 
Armistice  in  the  sectors  of  the  front  where  the 
enemy  had  been  demoralized  by  Bolshevist  propa¬ 
ganda  had  clear  evidence  of  the  terrible  power  of 
the  forces  that  the  Lords  of  Germany  had  so 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  177 


foolishly  let  loose.  When  the  French  troops  first 
reached  the  Rhine  at  Neu-Brisach,  a  number  of 
motor  lorries  were  surrendered.  Each  lorry  was 
driven  across  the  river  by  two  chauffeurs,  one  of 
whom  wore  the  red  rosette  that  marked  him  as  a 
member  of  the  Soviet,  and  the  trembling  officers 
watched  them  as  they  sung  songs  of  triumph,  and 
did  not  dare  to  give  an  order.  A  number  of  officers 
had  been  shot  down  the  night  before.  Many  of  the 
lorries  were  decorated  in  celebration  of  defeat,  and 
it  was  only  in  the  French  lines  that  the  officers 
could  insist  on  these  decorations  being  removed. 
It  was  no  small  local  conspiracy  that  had  tri¬ 
umphed  so  completely  over  the  arrogant  Imperial¬ 
ism  and  iron  discipline  of  the  German  Army,  and 
the  French  showed  their  realization  of  this  fact  by 
sternly  upholding  the  German  officers  against  any 
sign  of  insubordination  among  the  troops,  who 
were  promptly  ordered  to  remove  the  red  rosette 
from  their  caps. 

Germany,  in  her  lust  for  world  rule,  coquetted 
with  the  hidden  powers  that  were  conspiring  to 
destroy  not  only  the  British  Empire  and  the  Allied 
Nations  but  the  whole  of  civilization  and  Christen¬ 
dom.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  enemy 
employed  the  secret  organizations  which  are  the 


178  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


cause  of  the  world  unrest,  and  spent  money  like 
water  to  obtain  their  support.  The  “formidable 
sect”  was  ready  enough  to  take  German  money 
and  cause  trouble  among  the  Allies,  but  it  jealously 
guarded  the  control  of  its  organizations,  and  when 
the  time  came  it  left  Germany  to  its  fate. 

Experts  are  agreed  in  saying  that  the  cause  of 
the  existing  unrest  in  India  is  mainly  an  organized 
form  of  propaganda  which  has  been  at  work  for 
years,  disturbing,  as  Mr.  Montagu  would  say, 
“the  placid,  pathetic  contentment  of  the  masses,” 
and  investigation  shows  that  this  organization, 
which  is  steadily  gaining  strength,  is  of  amazing 
complexity.  In  1912  attention  was  officially  drawn 
to  the  existence  of  a  conspiracy,  organized  with 
extraordinary  ingenuity  in  some  centre  which 
could  not  be  discovered,  throughout  India  in  the 
proceedings  of  the  Commission  on  the  Indian  Army 
of  which  Field- Marshal  Lord  Nicholson  was  Presi¬ 
dent.  India  is  not  the  only  country  affected ;  on 
the  contrary,  the  new  gospel  is  preached  in  every 
country  of  the  East,  whether  under  European  con¬ 
trol,  semi-independent  or  independent,  through¬ 
out  North  Africa  from  Morocco  to  Egypt,  in 
Turkey,  Arabia,  and  the  whole  of  Asia  including 
Japan.  Thus  it  is  possible  to  find  agents  preaching 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  179 


the  same  doctrines  slightly  adapted  for  local  needs 
in  a  “douar  ”  in  Morocco,  in  Teheran,  Kabul,  Con¬ 
stantinople,  or  Calcutta.  The  whole  of  this  vast 
area  is  divided  up  into  zones,  each  with  its  con¬ 
trolling  centre,  from  which  direction  is  given,  and 
which  passes  on  the  word  received  from  other 
centres. 

The  character  of  the  propaganda  is  even  more 
surprising  than  the  perfection  of  the  organization. 
It  is,  generally  speaking,  neither  religious  nor 
national,  and  this  very  point  brings  it  at  once  into 
line  with  our  general  inquiry.  On  the  positive  side 
it  is  what  may  be  called  democratic,  and  on  the 
more  definite  negative  side  anti-European  and 
anti-Christian.  If  the  protocols  are  to  be  believed 
the  essential  part  of  the  universal  conspiracy  is 
first  the  use  of  the  word  “Liberty,  ”  which  “brings 
society  into  conflict  with  all  the  Powers,  even  with 
that  of  Nature  and  God,”  in  order  to  set  “all 
Powers  one  against  the  other  by  encouraging  their 
liberal  tendencies  towards  independence.”  Else¬ 
where  the  protocols  state  that  “tht  triumph  of  our 
theory  is  its  adaptability  to  the  temperament  of 
the  nations  with  which  we  come  in  contact.”  In 
the  East,  Liberty,  Equality,  and  Fraternity,  the 
watchwords  of  the  French  Revolution,  have  been 


i8o  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


replaced  by  American  Republicanism.  Republi¬ 
canism  is  particularly  suited  for  the  East,  since 
“Republican  rights  are  an  irony  for  the  pauper.” 
On  the  other  hand,  the  fundamental  notion  of  the 
“formidable  sect”  is  the  destruction  of  Christian¬ 
ity  and  all  religion  except  the  Jewish. 

There  is  certainly  a  great  similarity  between 
the  propaganda  now  being  carried  on  in  Asia  and 
“the  programme  of  violence  and  hypocrisy”  ad¬ 
vocated  by  the  protocols.  Religion  is  regarded 
by  the  Asiatic  intriguers  as  a  useful  weapon,  but 
they  do  not  insist  upon  it  except  when  a  religious 
question  gives  them  a  chance  of  causing  sedition 
and  furthering  their  ends.  They  are  aiming  defi¬ 
nitely  at  setting  the  Eastern  world  against  the 
Western,  and  therefore  it  is  their  intention  to  unite 
the  East  and  bridge  over  all  religious  and  national 
differences.  The  gospel  they  are  secretly  preaching 
is  Pan-Oriental,  and  their  desire  is  to  shake  au¬ 
thority  in  the  States  under  Christian  tutelage  and 
to  arouse  anti-Christian  sentiment  in  independent 
Eastern  States.  Asia  against  Europe  is  the  object 
at  which  they  are  aiming,  and  no  doubt  the  plotters 
hope  to  gain  their  ends  in  the  world-wide  confusion 
that  would  accompany  a  war  between  West  and 
East. 


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One  of  the  objects  of  the  secret  conspiracy  is 
“with  the  aid  of  Europe  to  promote  on  other  con¬ 
tinents  sedition,  dissension,  and  mutual  hostility.” 
With  this  object  in  view  the  promoters  of  disorder, 
who  have  one  of  their  most  important  headquar¬ 
ters  in  Switzerland,  have  portioned  out  the  areas 
on  which  they  are  to  work.  Seditious  literature 
and  agents  pass  from  Europe  to  Turkey,  and  their 
influence  spreads  by  definite  routes  over  Asia 
Minor  to  Persia  and  Afghanistan.  From  there 
they  pass  to  the  tribes  of  the  North-west  Frontier, 
and  the  zones  of  influence  radiate  out  so  that  not  a 
village  is  missed. 

Books  that  secretly  hint  at  rebellion,  speeches 
made  in  Europe,  and  cunningly  distorted  articles 
from  European  papers  are  distributed  among  those 
who  can  read.  The  agent  emphasizes  every  local 
grievance  and  turns  a  molehill  into  a  mountain, 
always  inculcating  the  doctrine  of  hatred  of  the 
Christian.  Above  all,  he  uses  everywhere  he  goes 
his  personal  influence  to  persuade  those  he  meets 
that  they  are  hardly  treated,  condoling  with  one 
man  on  his  undeserved  poverty,  flattering  another 
with  tales  of  the  great  power  that  his  abilities 
merit. 

There  is  no  scarcity  of  such  agents.  They  are 


182  the  cause  of  world  unrest 


produced  in  thousands,  these  missionaries  of  dis¬ 
content,  and  their  education  is  not  the  least  of 
the  cares  of  the  secret  conspiracy.  There  are  men 
trained  in  India,  Europe,  and  America  who  have 
drunk  in  with  their  study  of  European  knowledge 
and  culture  a  hatred  of  Europe.  The  teachers  of 
Eastern  religions  and  their  priests  afford  a  use¬ 
ful  recruiting  ground  for  such  agents.  Naturally 
they  are  opposed  to  Christianity,  and  are  ready  to 
pass  on  to  their  pupils  the  poison  of  hatred  which 
is  all  the  more  formidable  that  it  is  secretly  or¬ 
ganized.  There  are  many  European  agents,  some 
of  them  mere  faddists,  who  pass  on  the  dangerous 
doctrines  unconsciously,  while  others  deliberately 
betray  their  own  blood.  From  this  point  of  view, 
Eastern  Freemasonry  was  extremely  dangerous 
when  the  Eastern  lodges  sought  to  emulate  the 
secret  societies  of  the  French  Revolution,  but  the 
vigorous  action  taken  by  our  authorities  during 
the  war,  especially  in  Egypt,  has  considerably  re¬ 
stricted  its  activity.  The  ‘  ‘  Invisible  Force  ’  ’  which 
is  arraying  its  might  against  Christendom  has 
never  doubted  the  importance  of  education.  It  is 
laying  its  hand  in  the  East  on  the  coming  genera¬ 
tion,  for  wherever  there  is  a  native  school  within 
the  limits  of  its  propaganda,  its  gospel  is  being 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  183 


preached,  and  the  most  certain  proof  that  the 
whole  movement  is  being  directed  by  a  single 
secret  agency  is  that  this  teaching  is  identical  from 
Morocco  to  the  heart  of  Asia. 

Among  the  agents  employed  in  the  East  there 
are  few  Jews.  It  must  be  remembered  that  the 
people  of  the  East  have  an  insuperable  if  tolerant 
contempt  for  the  Jew.  This  attitude  is  not  the 
least  of  the  reasons  why  it  appears  supremely  im¬ 
politic  to  have  Mr.  Montagu  Secretary  for  India 
and  Sir  Herbert  Samuel  Governor  of  Palestine. 
If  the  great  conspiracy  is  to  be  overcome  there 
must  be  the  strictest  impartiality  on  the  part  of 
rulers  and  governors.  If  revolution  has  not  al¬ 
ready  broken  out  it  is  that  there  is  still  a  mass  of 
moderate  and  indifferent  opinion  which  is  refrac¬ 
tory  to  this  propaganda. 

Whether  this  gigantic  plot  of  throwing  East 
against  West  is  to  be  attributed  to  the  “formidable 
sect’'  is  a  question  that  must  be  left  to  the  individ¬ 
ual  judgment.  All  that  can  be  said  is  that  the 
purpose  pursued  and  the  methods  employed  are 
practically  identical  with  those  which  have  been 
considered  in  these  papers.  A  concrete  instance 
of  the  working  of  this  conspiracy  and  a  considera¬ 
tion  of  certain  disquieting  circumstances  that 


1 84  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


accompanied  it  may  throw  some  light  on  the 
question. 

It  may  be  remembered  that  on  July  i,  1909, 
Colonel  Sir  W.  Curzon  Wyllie,  an  Indian  official 
respected  and  admired  by  both  natives  and  Euro¬ 
peans,  was  murdered  at  the  Imperial  Institute  by 
a  native  named  Dhingra,  who  paid  for  the  crime 
with  his  life.  There  were  certain  facts  connected 
with  this  murder  which  were  never  made  public. 
There  is  reason  to  believe  that  shortly  before  the 
crime,  Dhingra  had  been  in  Paris,  and  it  was  said 
that  a  Nationalist  manifesto  dated  from  Paris  was 
found  among  his  papers.  It  is  certain  that  a  week 
before,  the  Anarchist  section  of  the  Paris  police 
was  informed  that  a  group  of  Indian  conspirators 
in  Paris  were  displaying  great  activity,  and  that 
they  were  preparing  to  bring  off  a  coup  either  in 
France  or  England,  probably  the  latter.  Unfor¬ 
tunately  this  information  was  not  passed  on  to  the 
English  police,  as  possibly  further  investigation 
might  have  prevented  this  dastardly  murder. 

This  Paris  group  had  been  working  against  the 
Empire  for  a  considerable  period,  and  its  existence 
was  well  known  to  the  French  police,  who  took  all 
necessary  precautions  that  no  outrage  should  be 
committed  in  the  territory  for  which  they  were 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  185 


responsible.  Many  meetings  were  held  in  a  house 
in  the  Rue  Laffitte  and  elsewhere,  and  a  vigorous 
propaganda  carried  on.  There  were  some  genuine 
native  fanatics  among  the  conspirators,  and 
several  members  of  the  Indian  colony  were  terror¬ 
ized  into  supporting  them  with  funds  and  declaring 
a  reluctant  sympathy  with  a  movement  that  filled 
them  with  alarm  and  repulsion.  In  particular, 
the  plotters  sought  adherents  among  the  young 
natives  who  came  to  the  Paris  University  to  study, 
and  their  threats  and  bloodthirsty  language  scared 
some  of  these  students,  who  were  anything  but 
warlike  by  nature,  almost  out  of  their  wits. 

An  important  member  of  the  group  was  a  woman 
of  German  extraction,  who  appeared  to  be  the 
chief  controller  of  its  action.  There  was,  however, 
another  woman,  a  Jewess,  who  was  in  friendly 
relations  with  the  conspirators,  though  there  is  no 
proof  that  she  took  any  part  in  their  plots.  This 
Jewess  was  a  very  remarkable  person.  Good- 
looking  and  ambitious,  she  flaunted  as  the  con¬ 
fidante  of  a  dignitary  of  the  Third  Republic,  and 
it  was  public  report  that,  with  the  aid  of  her  own 
people  and  the  invaluable  support  of  the  Grand 
Orient,  she  exercised  behind  the  scenes  a  power 
equal  to  that  of  many  a  Minister. 


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In  those  days  French  Freemasonry  was  still  a 
great  political  power.  It  was  no  longer  practically 
supreme  in  politics,  since  its  position  had  been 
badly  shaken  by  the  discovery  of  the  part  that 
it  had  been  playing  in  the  Army.  The  scandal 
that  led  to  the  resignation  of  General  Andre,  the 
Minister  of  War,  showed  that  secret  reports  drawn 
from  Masonic  sources  were  being  officially  used  to 
the  prejudice  of  officers  who  were  opposed  to  the 
form  of  Freemasonry  existing  in  France.  Attend¬ 
ance  at  church  was  reported  to  the  authorities  and 
actually  served  as  a  bar  to  promotion.  The  popu¬ 
lar  outcry  that  resulted  from  these  disclosures 
seriously  weakened  the  political  power  of  the 
Grand  Orient,  though  in  secret,  thanks  to  its  or¬ 
ganization  and  hold  on  the  Radical  Deputies  and 
Senators,  it  still  possessed  immense  influence. 

It  must  be  remembered  that  in  France  the 
Masonic  movement  was  permeated  with  Jews. 
The  Hebraic  element  was  strongly  represented  in 
the  Gentile  lodges,  and  there  existed  Jewish 
lodges  to  which  no  Gentile  members  were  ad¬ 
mitted  and  in  which  no  language  other  than  Yid¬ 
dish  or  German  was  spoken. 

The  “formidable  sect”  has  never  hesitated  in  its 
recognition  of  the  importance  of  ‘  ‘  encouraging  the 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  187 


ideas  of  others  and  using  them  for  its  own  pur¬ 
pose.”  Further,  the  protocols  admit  that  their 
policy  includes  “a  number  of  private  assassina¬ 
tions  accomplished  by  our  agents,  the  blind  sheep 
of  our  flock,  who  can  easily  be  induced  to  commit 
a  crime,  so  long  as  such  a  crime  is  of  a  political 
character.”  The  stupid  murder  of  Sir  Curzon 
Wyllie  was,  according  to  the  murderer,  a  political 
“removal.” 


CHAPTER  XIV 


Having  already  given  an  outline  of  the  vast 
Asiatic  plot  which  is  aimed  directly  at  the  whole 
of  Europe  as  well  as  the  British  Empire,  we  will 
now  draw  attention  to  the  conspiracy  which,  each 
day  growing  in  violence,  is  directed  at  “the 
Achilles’s  heel  of  England,”  Ireland.  The  imme¬ 
diate  purposes  of  these  intrigues  are  clear  enough, 
and  it  is  evident  that  they  would  fit  perfectly  into 
‘  ‘  the  programme  of  violence  and  hypocrisy  ’  ’  which 
has  been  put  forward  in  this  book  as  the  secret 
cause  of  world  unrest. 

The  crimes  which  are  Ireland’s  daily  history 
cannot  plead  the  excuse  of  hot-headed  impulse  or 
blind  revenge.  They  are  carried  out  in  a  spirit  of 
cold,  calculating  brutality,  and  as  a  Roman  Catho¬ 
lic  priest  wrote  in  a  letter  to  the  Dublin  Daily 
Express ,  they  are  “the  diabolical  work  of  an  or¬ 
ganization.”  Throughout  the  world  the  story  is 
the  same — murder,  outrage,  and  disorders  con¬ 
trived  and  controlled  by  some  invisible  power  of 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  189 


evil.  In  his  Red  Peril  and  Green ,  a  book  which  is 
a  mine  of  information  on  the  Irish  question,  Mr. 
Dawson  remarks  that  during  the  war  ‘  ‘  nothing  was 
more  astonishing  or  nerve-racking  than  the  cob¬ 
web  of  intrigue,  spun  by  a  hidden  hand,  in  which 
the  nation  was  enmeshed,  and  in  which  it  felt  itself 
entangled  at  every  crisis.”  Even  more  astonish¬ 
ing  and  nerve-racking  is  the  survival  of  this  cob¬ 
web  after  the  defeat  of  Germany.  During  the  war 
at  least  we  knew  the  identity  of  the  spider  which 
spun  the  web,  but  now  the  cause  of  all  the  trouble 
is  obscure  and  mysterious,  and  the  forces  of  civili¬ 
zation  seem  to  be  fighting  in  the  dark. 

The  stability  of  the  British  Empire  is  the  chief 
obstacle  which  those  who  aim  at  the  overthrow 
of  European  civilization  have  to  overcome,  and 
Ireland  is,  according  to  Karl  Marx  and  the  modern 
Bolsheviks,  the  Empire’s  weakest  point.  Mrs. 
Webster,  in  her  letter  to  the  Morning  Post  pub¬ 
lished  on  July  18,  1920,  quoted  Karl  Marx  on 
Ireland,  and  his  proposal  to  the  International  that 
they  should,  in  order  to  prepare  the  way  for  re¬ 
volution  in  England,  support  the  Irish  demand 
for  independence. 

This  Marxian  view  is  still  accepted  by  the  In¬ 
ternationalists,  and  the  whole  question  has  recently 


iqo  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


been  discussed  by  Dr.  Hermann  Gorter,  author  of 
The  World's  Revolution ,  and  described  in  the  Bol¬ 
shevist  Press  as  a  Professor  at  the  Moscow  Uni¬ 
versity.  He  is  connected  with  the  Dutch  Com¬ 
munists,  and  he  writes  frequently  for  the  Bolshevist 
papers  of  this  country.  Writing  in  the  Workers' 
Dreadnought,  Miss  Sylvia  Pankhurst’s  paper,  on 
“Ireland:  the  Achilles’s  Heel  of  England,”  Dr. 
Gorter  states  that  the  demand  of  small  nations  for 
independence  can  now  be  supported  by  Bolsheviks, 
because  Imperialistic  Capitalism  is  shaken,  and 
“this  independence  now  becomes  a  means  to 
weaken  the  position  of  all  the  big  capitalistic 
nations,  and  even  to  cause  their  downfall.” 

Developing  the  application  of  this  idea,  which  is 
one  of  Lenin’s,  the  Bolshevist  professor  writes: 

“For  no  country  is  this  more  true  than  for 
Ireland.  If  Ireland  should  become  independent, 
Great  Britain  would  be  struck  to  the  very  founda¬ 
tions.  Now,  therefore,  it  is  the  duty  of  all  British 
Communists  to  demand  the  complete  independence 
of  Ireland,  and  to  take  all  the  measures  required 
to  bring  it  about,  and  for  the  entire  Third  Inter¬ 
national  this  is  of  the  utmost  importance.  Again, 
England  is  the  rock  on  which  Capitalism  is  firmly 
rooted,  the  bulwark  of  world  Capitalism,  the  hope 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  191 


of  all  counter-revolution  and  all  reaction.  But 
Ireland  is  the  Achilles’s  heel  of  England.  For  the 
revolution  on  the  European  continent,  therefore 
for  the  world  revolution,  it  is  a  vital  question  that 
British  Capital  should  be  hit  there.” 

Dr.  Gorter  states  that  “the  gigantic  genius  of 
Marx  saw  all  this  long  ago,”  and  he  quotes  the 
following  from  Marx,  which  supplements  Mrs. 
Webster’s  quotations : 

‘  ‘  That  country  which  makes  entire  nations  into 
its  proletarians,  which  encompasses  the  whole 
world  in  its  gigantic  arms,  that  once  already  has 
defrayed  out  of  its  own  funds  the  cost  of  a  Euro¬ 
pean  restoration,  in  the  very  heart  of  which  the 
class-antitheses  have  developed  into  the  most 
pronounced  and  shameless  extreme :  that  England 
seems  to  be  the  rock  against  which  all  revolu¬ 
tionary  waves  are  broken,  and  which  starves  the 
new  society  already  in  the  maternal  womb.  Eng¬ 
land  dominates  the  world’s  market.  A  subversion 
of  the  national  economic  relations  in  any  country  of 
the  European  continent,  or  in  the  whole  of  the  Euro¬ 
pean  continent,  would  be  without  England  no  more 
than  a  storm  in  a  glass  of  water.  The  relations  of 
industry  and  commerce  within  every  nation  are 
dominated  by  their  intercourse  with  other  nations, 
and  depend  on  their  relation  to  the  world  market. 


192  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


England,  however,  dominates  the  world  market, 
and  the  bourgeoisie  dominates  England.” 

Dr.  Gorter  points  out  that  the  above  1 1  applies  in 
almost  a  magic  way  to  our  own  times.”  England’s 
“gigantic  transport  fleet”  is  a  menace  to  the 
Socialist  order,  and  now  that  Germany  is  defeated, 
England  practically  dominates  the  markets  of  the 
world.  “Now  also  Great  Britain  is  the  rock  of 
Capitalism  in  Europe.”  He  then  quotes  Marx  on 
Ireland.  Marx  wrote : 

“Ireland  is  the  stronghold  of  English  landed 
aristocracy.  The  exploitation  of  this  country  is 
not  only  the  main  source  of  the  national  wealth, 
it  forms  likewise  England’s  greatest  moral  strength. 
It  represents,  in  fact,  the  domination  ot  England 
over  Ireland.  Ireland,  therefore,  is  the  great 
expedient,  by  means  of  which  the  English  aris¬ 
tocracy  maintains  its  domination  in  England  itself. 
On  the  other  hand,  withdraw  the  English  Army 
and  police  from  Ireland  tomorrow  and  you  will 
straightway  have  an  agrarian  revolution  in  Ireland. 
The  fall  of  the  English  aristocracy  in  Ireland, 
however,  needs  must  imply  and  inevitably  leads 
to  their  overthrow  in  England.  Through  this  the 
primal  condition  for  the  proletarian  revolution  in 
England  would  be  fulfilled.” 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  193 

The  remainder  of  the  quotation  given  by  Her¬ 
mann  Gorter  from  Marx  is  the  one  given  by  Mrs. 
Webster.  Commenting  on  these  statements  of 
Marx,  Gorter  says  that  while  the  conditions  in 
Ireland  today  have  changed  since  Marx  wrote, 
what  he  said  to  the  First  International  “applies 
still,  and  a  hundred  times  more,  to  the  Third. 
The  Third  International  must  strive  by  every 
possible  means  to  promote  the  independence  of 
Ireland.” 

“But  in  the  hands  of  the  British  workers  lies 
the  fate  of  Ireland  (concludes  Dr.  Gorter).  They 
must  follow  the  example  given  by  Lenin  and  the 
Russian  Bolsheviks,  who,  in  order  to  make 
the  revolution  in  the  whole  of  Russia,  demanded 
the  independences  of  Finland  and  Poland  and  the 
Baltic  States.  The  attitude  of  the  British  workers 
with  regard  to  Ireland  is  the  barometer  for  the 
British  revolution.”  (From  the  Workers'  Dread¬ 
nought,  May  8,  1920.) 

Since  Trotsky,  Lenin,  and  Hermann  Gorter  have 
paid  so  much  attention  to  the  need  for  breaking 
up  the  British  Empire,  the  organs  of  Bolshevism 
and  Revolution  have  followed  this  lead.  The 
Socialist  (Glasgow),  the  organ  of  the  Socialist 
Labour  Party,  in  its  leading  article  on  June  17, 
1920,  discussing  the  trouble  in  Ireland,  remarks: 


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194  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


“L’ affaire  Irlandaise  will  yet  prove  the  rock  on 
which  the  British  Empire,  the  greatest  partner¬ 
ship  of  world-robbery  and  slaughter  in  history, 
will  perish.  The  dissolution  of  the  British  Empire, 
the  centre  and  stronghold  of  world-capitalism,  is 
the  necessary  prelude  to  the  success  of  the  world 
revolution  of  the  working  class.  We  of  the  Social¬ 
ist  Labour  Party  of  Great  Britain  are  everywhere 
attempting  to  the  best  of  our  ability  and  resources 
to  awaken  British  Labour  to  action  in  recognition 
of  its  duties  and  responsibilities  to  Ireland.  .  .  . 
The  success  of  the  Irish  working  class  is  our 
success.” 

During  the  last  decade  a  great  and  striking 
change  has  come  over  Irish  aims  and  methods. 
The  struggle  against  the  British  Empire  is  being 
controlled  by  far  more  dangerous  and  subtle  brains, 
and  one  is  forced  to  the  conclusion  that  the  real 
directing  force  regards  Irish  independence  not  as 
an  end  in  itself,  but  as  a  means  towards  the  accom¬ 
plishment  of  world- wide  anarchy.  In  the  past 
Ireland  complained  of  English  misgovernment, 
and  at  least  admitted  a  solution  of  the  problem 
which  would  have  left  it  within  the  Empire.  To¬ 
day  Ireland  will  have  no  part  or  parcel  in  the 
British  Empire,  and  seeks  in  the  pursuit  of  its 
independence  the  destruction  of  the  social  order. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  195 


The  time  of  sporadic  rebellion  has  passed  with 
the  period  of  Parliamentary  agitation.  Sinn  Fein, 
once  an  intellectual  movement,  has  been  swept 
away  and  finds  itself  united  with  organized  Irish 
Labour  and  the  Social  Revolutionaries  pledged  to 
the  cause  of  Bolshevism  and  Anarchy  throughout 
the  world. 

It  is  a  suggestive  study  to  trace  the  means  by 
which  this  vital  change  was  brought  about.  The 
principal  agent  was  James  Connolly,  who  intro¬ 
duced  into  the  politics  of  Irish  disaffection  the 
philosophy  of  Social  Revolution.  From  1903  to 
1911,  Connolly  was  in  America,  and  there,  as  Mr. 
Dawson  points  out  in  the  book  quoted  above,  he 
came  under  the  influence  of  Leon,  who  counted 
Lenin  among  his  disciples.  It  was  Connolly’s 
work  that  enabled  Mr.  de  Blacam  to  make  the 
proud  boast  that  Bolshevism  was  born  in  Ireland, 
and  Lenin  himself  admitted  that  he  owed  much  to 
the  Irish  rebel  who  was  executed  after  the  rebellion 
of  1916.  Here  we  have  incontrovertible  proof  of 
the  unity  of  control  and  direction  that  underlies 
disorders  in  every  part  of  the  world.  Long  before 
Germany  had  fallen  and  could  no  longer  provide 
Ireland  with  the  sinews  of  war,  the  Irish  movement 
had  come  into  contact  with  the  High  Priest  of 


196  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Bolshevism  and  was  ready  to  play  its  part  in  the 
world  conspiracy.  Connolly  was  one  of  the  or¬ 
ganizers  of  the  Industrial  Workers  of  the  World  in 
America,  and  as  such  had  every  reason  to  become 
acquainted  with  many  of  those  who  brought  about 
the  Russian  Revolution.  There  he  must  have 
learnt  the  doctrines  that  the  “formidable  sect” 
was  spreading  through  the  world  for  its  own 
purposes. 

A  direct  link  between  the  great  Asiatic  con¬ 
spiracy  and  the  Irish  plot  is  apparently  to  be 
found  in  the  person  of  Liam  Mellowes,  who  played 
a  leading  part  in  America  in  bringing  about  the 
open  alliance  between  the  Sinn  Fein  organization 
and  Russian  Bolshevism.  In  the  rebellion  of  1916, 
this  Mellowes  commanded  a  rebel  force  in  County 
Galway,  and  after  its  collapse  he  escaped  from 
Ireland,  probably  to  Germany.  Later,  he  is  to  be 
found  in  New  York  working  with  a  German  agent. 
His  main  object  on  this  occasion  was  to  organize 
another  revolution  in  Ireland  in  the  spring  of  1918, 
an  attempt  that  failed  but  another  of  his  enter¬ 
prises  was  from  our  point  of  view  very  significant, 
since  it  consisted  in  forwarding  money  to  the 
Turks  and  establishing  a  mysterious  Turkish  or¬ 
ganization  in  America.  It  would  be  interesting 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  197 


to  know  whether  this  organization  which  thus 
came  into  existence  after  the  United  States  had 
entered  the  war  has  disappeared,  or  whether  it 
maybe  anyway  responsible  for  the  perpetual  flow 
of  subversive  propaganda  that  finds  its  way  into 
Asia  from  America. 

Of  the  part  played  by  Sinn  Fein  during  the  war 
there  is  no  need  to  speak  at  length.  It  is  a  mat¬ 
ter  of  public  knowledge  that  German  money  was 
poured  into  Ireland  to  encourage  rebellion,  and  the 
sinister  figure  of  Casement  serves  as  a  perpetual 
reminder  of  the  treachery  that  was  at  work.  So 
far  as  the  world  conspiracy  was  concerned,  Ireland 
had  long  ago  shown  that  it  possessed  good  material 
on  which  the  promoters  of  disorder  could  reckon. 
What  better  ally  could  the  “formidable  sect” 
desire  than  the  Ribbonmen  of  1850,  who  wore  a 
ribbon  on  their  sleeves  and  in  their  hearts  carried 
the  words  of  the  Ribbon  Oath : 

“In  the  presence  of  Almighty  God,  and  this  my 
brother,  I  do  swear  that  I  will  suffer  my  right  hand 
to  be  cut  from  my  body  and  laid  at  the  gaol  door 
before  I  will  waylay  or  betray  a  brother,  and  I  will 
persevere  and  not  spare  from  the  cradle  to  the 
crutch  and  the  crutch  to  the  cradle;  that  I  will  not 
hear  the  moans  or  groans  of  infancy  or  old  age, 


198  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


but  that  I  will  wade  knee-deep  in  Orangeman’s 
blood  and  do  as  King  James  did. 

Such  an  oath  might  well  find  its  place  in  the 
Protocols  of  the  “Elders  of  Zion,”  and  Mr.  Daw¬ 
son,  when  he  describes  the  Ribbon  Society  as 
“unrivalled  for  the  purpose  of  social  revolution, 
unscrupulous,  mysterious,  pitiless,  ‘deaf  to  the 
moans  of  infancy  or  age,”’  wrote  a  phrase  that 
could  equally  well  be  applied  to  the  world- wide 
secret  societies  with  which  we  have  been  dealing. 

When  Germany  fell  and  rebellious  Ireland  could 
hope  for  no  more  aid  from  that  quarter,  it  was 
natural  that  Sinn  Fein  should  seek  alliance  with 
Bolshevist  Russia.  The  negotiations  were  carried 
on  in  America  by  Mellowes,  of  whose  activities 
we  have  already  spoken,  and  Dr.  McCartan,  Sinn 
Fein  “ambassador”  to  the  United  States.  The 
Bolsheviks  sent  over  a  Mr.  Martens,  and  an  offen¬ 
sive  alliance  was  concluded.  Dr.  McCartan  pro¬ 
claimed  to  the  world : 

“The  four  million  people  of  the  Republic  of 
Ireland,  in  their  struggle  to  free  themselves  from 
military  subjugation,  want  and  welcome  the  aid 
of  the  free  men  of  the  Russian  Socialist  Federated 
Soviet  Republic.  Between  the  Russians  and  the 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  199 


Irish,  isolated  in  their  struggle  against  British 
armies  of  occupation  to  found  securely  the  Re¬ 
public  of  Ireland,  there  can  exist  only  the  sense 
of  brotherhood  which  a  common  experience,  en¬ 
dured  for  a  common  purpose,  alone  can  induce.” 

That  the  programme  of  Sinn  Fein  as  at  present 
constituted  is  practically  identical  with  that  of 
the  Moscow  International,  founded  to  enforce  the 
dictatorship  of  the  proletariat,  the  abolition  of  all 
existing  forms  of  government,  and  the  expropria¬ 
tion  of  all  property,  is  shown  by  the  following 
parallel  passages  quoted  by  the  Duke  of  North¬ 
umberland  in  a  speech  made  at  a  meeting  of 
members  of  the  Houses  of  Lords  and  Commons 
on  July  7,  1920. 


The  Third  International. 

Immediate  universal  dic¬ 
tatorship  of  the  proletariat, 
involving  the  seizure  of  gov¬ 
ernmental  power  to  replace  it 
by  the  apparatus  of  proletarian 
power.  This  implies  the  set¬ 
ting  up  of  working-class  institu¬ 
tions  as  ruling  power,  and  the 
principle  of  all  rights  to  workers 
and  no  rights  to  any  but 
workers,  and  is  to  be  effected 


Sinn  Fein,  1918  and  1919. 1 

The  enrolment  of  all  workers 
in  the  Union,  the  Transport 
Union  forming  an  organized 
proletariat.  The  establishment 
of  Dail  Eircann,  a  council  of 
duly  elected  representatives  of 
the  Irish  people  to  constitute 
de  facto  as  well  as  de  jure  a 
National  Government.  The 
establishment  of  Republican 
Courts  and  the  compulsory 


1  From  the  Reports  and  Memoranda  presented  to  the  Inter¬ 
national  Labour  and  Socialist  Conference  at  Berne,  February, 
1919. 


200  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


by  the  displacement  of  all  bour¬ 
geois  judges  and  establishment 
of  all  proletarian  courts,  the 
elimination  of  control  by  Gov¬ 
ernment  officials,  and  substitu¬ 
tion  of  new  organs  of 
management  of  proletariat. 

The  disarming  of  the  bour¬ 
geoisie  and  the  general  arming 
of  the  proletariat  in  order  to 
make  revolution  secure. 

The  dictatorship  of  the  pro¬ 
letariat  should  be  the  lever  of 
the  immediate  expropriation 
of  capital  and  the  suppression 
of  the  right  of  private  property 
in  the  means  of  production 
which  should  be  transformed 
into  the  property  of  the  whole 
nation. 

The  fundamental  principle 
is  to  subordinate  the  interest  of 
the  movement  in  each  country 
to  the  general  interests  of  the 
international  revolution  as  a 
whole. 


withdrawal  of  litigants  from 
British  Courts.  The  formation 
(promised  but  not  yet  accom¬ 
plished)  of  a  board  responsible 
for  local  government  to  take 
the  place  of  the  Local  Govern¬ 
ment  Board. 

With  the  Irish  Volunteers 
and  formation  of  the  Irish 
Republican  Army  the  latter 
part  of  this  ordinance  may  be 
said  to  have  been  carried  out  in 
Ireland. 

To  recover  for  the  Nation 
complete  possession  of  all  the 
natural  physical  sources  of 
wealth  of  the  country.  To 
win  for  workers  of  Ireland  the 
ownership  and  control  of  the 
whole  produce  of  their  labour. 
To  abolish  all  powers  and 
privileges,  social  and  political, 
based  on  property  not  granted 
or  confirmed  by  the  freely  ex¬ 
pressed  will  of  the  Irish  people. 

To  assist  in  the  efforts  of  the 
working  class  of  all  Nations  in 
their  struggle  for  emancipation. 


This  adoption  of  the  Bolshevist  programme  has 
meant  wealth  for  Sinn  Fein.  Seven  years  ago  it 
was  almost  bankrupt;  today  it  runs  newspapers, 
keeps  up  an  army,  and  even  equips  its  assassins 
with  motor-cars.  A  Helsingfors  despatch  of  April, 
1919,  gives  the  key  to  this  sudden  accession  of 
riches.  ‘‘The  Council  of  People’s  Commissaries 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  201 


.  .  .  have  voted  the  sum  of  500,000,000  roubles 
monthly  for  the  bureau  of  foreign  propaganda. 
The  first  payment  of  500,000,000  roubles  for  the 
month  of  February  was  sent  to  the  Sinn  Feiners  in 
Ireland.” 

Naturally  enough,  the  Bolsheviks  in  England 
stretched  out  a  helping  hand  across  the  Irish 
Channel  to  aid  a  movement  that  is  admirably 
organized,  well  furnished  with  the  sinews  of  war, 
and  in  all  respects  congenial  to  them.  Mr.  Smillie, 
who  was  so  honourably  mentioned  in  Lenin’s 
despatches,  sought  to  tempt  Sinn  Fein  to  the 
“accursed  reactionary  chamber”  by  the  bright 
prospect  of  finding  there  an  array  of  Labour  mem¬ 
bers  pledged,  like  them,  to  the  world  conspiracy, 
and  suggested :  “Your  fight  is  our  fight ;  come  over 
and  help  us.”  The  cry  was  promptly  taken  up  by 
the  Bolshevist  Press  in  this  country,  and  the  follow¬ 
ing  quotations  show  how  close  is  the  alliance  sworn 
between  British  Bolsheviks  and  Irish  Sinn  Feiners: 

“In  the  fight  of  the  world  proletariat  for  the 
overthrow  of  Capitalism,  every  conscious  section 
realizes  that  the  British  Government  typifies 
reaction  in  its  worst  form.  It  is  Britain  which 
fights  the  war  against  Russia,  Britain  is  behind 
Horthy  in  Hungary,  Britain  is  behind  the  German 


202  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Junkers.  Generally  speaking,  the  overthrowing  of 
the  British  Government  will  be  a  tremendous 
impetus  to  world  revolt,  and  any  people  or  class 
which  is  helping  to  fight  British  reaction  is  de¬ 
serving  of  support.  Ireland,  the  nearest  country  to 
Britain,  is  in  revolt,  and  in  spite  of  every  cruelty 
and  repression,  is  more  than  holding  her  own.” 
(The  Socialist,  organ  of  the  Socialist  Labour  Party, 
and  affiliated  to  the  Moscow  International,  July 
8,  1920.) 

The  British  Socialist  Party  (London)  published 
in  the  Call  of  April  22, 1920,  the  following  manifesto : 

“You  wish  to  set  up  an  Irish  Republic.  So  be  it. 
The  workers  of  Britain  have  no  real  quarrel  with 
your  demand.  Only  the  British  ruling  caste,  drunk 
with  imperialism,  and  sodden  with  prosperity, 
denies  your  claim — as  it  denies  the  similar  claims  of 
the  peoples  of  Egypt  and  India.  The  B.S.P.  con¬ 
demns  the  brutal  methods  employed  by  the 
British  Government  in  Ireland  .  .  .  and  pledges 
the  B.S.P.  to  assist  by  all  means  in  its  power  the 
endeavours  of  the  Irish  people  to  national  self- 
determination.” 

The  Worker,  the  organ  of  the  Scottish  Workers’ 
Committees,  also  affiliated  to  the  Moscow  Inter¬ 
national,  printed  on  July  17,  1920,  an  appeal  from 
a  Sinn  Feiner  to  Irish  people  in  Britain : 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  203 


“In  the  future  you  must  view  the  industrial 
centres  in  Britain  as  it  were  from  a  military  point 
of  view  and  the  outposts  of  our  fighting  front. 
Realize  the  importance  of  your  position  and  your 
power  to  its  full  significance  as  a  cog  in  the  ma¬ 
chinery  that  produces  and  distributes  the  means  of 
existence  for  Britain.  You  can  help  in  changing 
the  control  of  the  machinery,  or  if  needs  be,  destroy 
it — Thiggin  Thu.  Therefore,  your  place  is  in  the 
Workers’  Committees.” 

The  Call ,  June  10,  1920,  in  a  leading  article  on 
Mr.  J.  H.  Thomas  and  the  Irish  railwaymen,  says: 

“Consider  the  Irish  situation!  The  vilest  and 
most  despicable  tyranny  of  modern  times  has 
driven  the  Irish  people  into  open  rebellion.  They 
hold  Ireland  against  their  English  masters.  They 
are  desperately  reckless,  unscrupulous,  if  you  will, 
in  their  fight  for  the  independence  which  has  been 
their  dream  for  centuries.  But  they  are  right.  .  .  . 
All  that  Austria,  Russia,  Spain,  the  tyrannies  of 
the  past  stood  for,  England  stands  for  now.  By 
the  sword,  and  by  the  sword  alone,  she  holds 
Ireland.  The  Irish  railwaymen  are  bound  to  refuse 
to  carry  troops,  etc.  They  would  be  craven  curs  if 
they  did  less,  and  it  is  the  duty  of  every  decent 
Englishman  to  support  them  to  the  utmost  limit 
of  his  power.” 


204  THE  cause  of  world  unrest 


Equally  explicit  is  a  leading  article  in  the 
Worker  of  April  24,  1920: 

“Come,  fellow  workers,  stir  yourselves.  We 
have  to  go  through  it  yet,  for  until  we  do  Ireland 
cannot  be  free,  nor  can  we  ourselves  be  free.  Not 
until  we  have  attempted  to  cleanse  the  earth  of 
this  foul  garbage  of  Capitalist  Militarism  can  we  be 
called  men.  So  long  as  we  make  no  move  to  pre¬ 
vent  these  atrocities,  we  ourselves  are  participants 
in  them.  Down  tools  and  let  Britain  rot  until 
Ireland’s  wrongs  are  removed.” 

Tom  Quelch,  of  the  B.S.P.  Executive,  in  an  open 
letter  to  a  young  comrade  printed  in  the  Call  of 
April  29,  1920,  bids  him: 

“Think  of  the  men  of  ’48;  think  of  the  Com¬ 
munards,  think  of  the  Chicago  martyrs,  think  of 
Marx,  of  Bebel,  of  Jaures,  of  William  Liebknecht, 
of  William  Morris,  of  Jim  Connolly,  of  Debs,  of 
Lenin,  of  Karl  Liebknecht,  of  Rosa  Luxembourg, 
of  Bela  Kun — think  of  all  who  have  given  so  much 
for  the  solidarity  and  happiness  of  the  human 
race — and  work,  and  strive,  and,  if  needs  be,  fight 
in  the  service  of  the  World  Socialist  Republic.” 

Space  will  not  permit  more  than  a  brief  outline 
of  the  activities  of  the  Bolshevist  conspirators  in 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  205 


South  Africa,  Australia,  and  Canada.  In  Johan¬ 
nesburg  and  Capetown,  two  Russians  preached  the 
world  revolution,  and  as  they  spoke  in  Russian  to 
their  own  compatriots  the  meaning  of  their  propa¬ 
ganda  was  not  as  first  realized  by  the  authorities. 
The  result  of  their  efforts  was  displayed  in  a  strike 
at  Johannesburg,  which  the  leaders  proclaimed  as 
the  herald  of  general  revolution.  M.  Miliukov, 
in  his  Bolshevism ,  An  International  Danger ,  tells 
how  when  they  were  sailing  from  Mozambique  at 
the  request  of  the  authorities,  who  had  discovered 
their  mission,  one  of  them,  named  Lapinsky,  told 
the  revolutionaries  who  had  come  to  see  them  off 
that  the  Russian  Bolsheviks  were  the  advance 
guard  of  the  world  revolution,  and  that  some  day 
he  would  return  in  triumph. 

Very  characteristic  of  the  world  conspiracy  were 
the  means  used  for  spreading  revolutionary  ideas 
in  Australia.  A  secret  society  organized  in  small 
groups  was  at  work  preaching  the  Bolshevist 
doctrine.  It  will  have  been  noted  that  there  is 
an  invariable  tendency  in  this  conspiracy  in  every 
part  of  the  world  to  use  pseudonyms,  partly  no 
doubt  for  security’s  sake,  but  also  to  enhance  the 
mystery  that  is  not  without  its  effect  on  the  im¬ 
agination  of  the  public  and  to  conceal  too  obvious 


206  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


traces  of  racial  origin.  Thus,  as  we  have  shown, 
many  of  the  secret  leaders  of  the  French  Revolu¬ 
tion  chose  their  own  names,  and  it  is  the  exception 
to  find  a  Russian  Bolshevik  who  is  not  known  by  a 
name  that  is  intended  not  to  define,  but  to  hide  his 
family  and  race.  In  Australia  we  find  the  same 
system.  The  members  of  the  secret  society  con¬ 
cealed  their  identities  under  false  names,  and  car¬ 
ried  on  their  propaganda  by  unsigned  typewritten 
pamphlets.  Their  activities  resulted  in  a  violent 
demonstration  at  Brisbane,  which  eventually 
ended  in  the  discomfiture  of  the  Bolsheviks  at  the 
hands  of  returned  soldiers,  and  it  is  reasonable  to 
see  their  hand  in  the  industrial  unrest  that  followed 
this  affair. 

Better  known  to  the  public  are  the  results  of 
“the  programme  of  violence  and  hypocrisy”  in 
Canada,  where  the  movement  is  very  closely  con¬ 
nected  with  the  powerful  revolutionary  organiza¬ 
tions  of  the  United  States.  Toronto  could  boast 
three  Bolshevist  societies,  of  which  the  members 
were  ninety  per  cent,  foreign  and  seventy -five  per 
cent.  Russian.  The  riots  at  Winnipeg,  which  were 
ended  by  the  vigorous  action  of  the  North-west 
Mounted  Police,  a  force  that  knows  how  to  use 
force  when  force  is  necessary,  and  by  the  arming 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  207 


of  loyal  citizens,  proved  that  Bolshevist  propa¬ 
ganda  had  made  its  impression  in  the  West,  though 
the  revolutionaries  would  never  have  attained 
the  temporary  success  they  enjoyed  had  it  not 
been  that  the  war  veterans  were  carrying  on  a 
demonstration  of  their  own  for  an  entirely  different 
purpose.  Among  the  Canadian  Bolshevist  leaders 
there  are  many  Russian  and  Jewish  names,  and 
the  gospel  preached  is  the  now  familiar  demand  for 
the  overthrow  of  the  *  ‘  damnable  trinity  of  Religion, 
Government,  and  Capitalism/’  It  would  be 
difficult  to  find  a  better  summary  of  the  doctrines 
set  out  in  the  protocols  to  be  preached  to  all 
peoples  in  order  that  the  “formidable  sect”  may, 
when  the  moment  comes,  grasp  from  the  midst 
of  world  anarchy  universal  dominion. 


CHAPTER  XV 


The  manifestations  of  the  world  conspiracy  have 
not  affected  really  closely  the  daily  life  of  the 
average  British  reader.  Revolutions  in  Russia  or 
Turkey,  the  failure  of  the  Peace  Conference,  or 
even  disorder  and  bloodshed  in  Ireland,  have  less 
immediate  result  on  every  day  existence  than  the 
menace  of  a  German  air  raid.  The  subject  now  to 
be  discussed  is  of  intimate  concern  to  the  pocket 
and  ambition  of  every  citizen  of  the  British  Isles. 
Since  the  Armistice,  the  clash  between  Capital  and 
Labour,  the  increasing  demands  for  more  money 
and  less  work  on  the  part  of  the  labouring  classes, 
have  had  a  definite  and  concrete  effect  on  every 
Englishman’s  pleasure  and  business.  The  main 
pillar  of  British  supremacy  has  been  our  indus¬ 
trial  predominance,  and  it  is  the  object  of  this 
chapter  to  ascertain  how  far  the  attacks  now  being 
directed  against  that  predominance  are  due  to 
external  influence  and  to  “the  programme  of 
violence  and  hypocrisy”  preached  under  the  con¬ 
trol  of  the  “formidable  sect.” 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  209 


The  British  working  man  is  naturally  “  insular  ” 
in  his  outlook,  and  it  is  only  through  foreign  in¬ 
fluence  that  the  “formidable  sect”  could  bring 
him  into  line  with  the  revolutionaries  of  the  Conti¬ 
nent.  Such  influence  is  mainly  concealed,  though 
sometimes  the  alliance  between  British  Labour 
leaders  and  Russian  Bolsheviks  is  flaunted  before 
the  world.  No  more  comical  example  of  this 
alliance  could  be  discovered  than  the  presentation 
of  the  Soviet  Military  Medal  to  Mr.  Robert  Wil¬ 
liams,  Secretary  of  the  Transport  Workers'  Federa¬ 
tion.  It  was  to  be  expected  that  the  Moscow 
authorities  would  be  anxious  to  confer  the  same 
medal  on  Mr.  Smillie,  who  has  fought  so  nobly  in 
the  cause  of  Bolshevism. 

Throughout  Great  Britain,  an  attempt  is  being 
made  to  create  what  Lenin  would  describe  as  “a 
revolutionary  situation.”  It  has  been  shown  how 
continuous  beneath  the  surface  are  the  secret 
influences  that  control  all  revolutions.  This  fact  is 
often  ignored  by  the  general  public.  It  regards 
each  outbreak  of  revolution  as  a  peculiar  phenom¬ 
enon  due  to  conditions  of  contemporary  society, 
and  quite  unconnected  with  similar  outbreaks  in 
the  past.  The  demands  and  methods  of  our 
present-day  revolutionaries  are  regarded  as  quite 


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modern,  and  as  an  evidence  of  advanced  thought, 
if  not  exactly  an  indication  of  moral  and  social 
progress.  The  Bolsheviks  in  Russia  and  the  Left 
Wing  of  the  British  Labour  movement  are  not  the 
advocates  of  new  and  up-to-date  doctrines,  the 
result  of  the  better  education,  and,  in  the  words 
of  Mr.  Frank  Hodges,  “the  awakened  conscious¬ 
ness”  of  the  workers,  but  they  are  putting  before 
the  proletariat  a  rehash  of  shibboleths  that  have 
been  the  stock-in-trade  of  the  Internationalists 
and  world-revolutionaries  for  well  over  a  century. 

To  understand  the  revolutionary  movement  in 
Great  Britain,  it  is  first  necessary  to  explain  that 
the  Socialist  societies  in  this  country  are,  with  one 
or  two  exceptions,  International  organizations; 
and  that  their  aims  and  methods  and  phraseology 
are  derived  from  foreign  sources — mainly  from 
the  Jews  of  Central  and  Eastern  Europe.  We  shall 
never  really  understand  so-called  British  Socialism 
if  we  fail  to  grasp  this  important  fact.  It  is  the 
key  to  much  that  is  otherwise  inexplicable.  It  is, 
of  course,  exceedingly  difficult  for  those  who  are 
not  familiar  with  the  ramifications  of  International 
Socialism  to  perceive  this  alien  influence  in  move¬ 
ments  that  are  apparently  of  British  origin.  This 
difficulty  is  increased  by  the  fact  that  in  this 


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country  the  known  leaders  of  revolutionary  or¬ 
ganizations  are  generally  of  British  birth.  The 
International  Jew  does  not  usually  appear  as  the 
leader,  as  he  so  frequently  does  on  the  Continent 
and  even  in  the  Labour  movement  of  America. 
The  British  workman  will  not,  as  a  rule,  knowingly 
be  led  by  men  of  an  alien  race.  There  are,  of  course, 
exceptions,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Clyde  strike  in 
January,  1919,  when  the  chairman  of  the  Strike 
Committee  was  a  Polish  Jew  tailor,  and  close 
study  shows  that  the  Left  Wing  of  the  British 
Labour  and  Socialist  movement  is  completely 
dominated  by  anti-British  sentiments;  and  the 
origin  of  these  sentiments  is  to  be  found  in  the 
foreign  influences  operating  on  the  Continent  and 
in  America. 

An  essential  point  in  the  study  of  the  plans  for 
a  revolution  in  Great  Britain  and  in  other  parts  of 
the  Empire  is  the  connection  between  the  theories 
and  doctrines  of  the  German  Jew,  Karl  Marx,  and 
the  methods  of  our  revolutionary  Socialists  and 
Syndicalists.  The  British  leaders  of  Socialism  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  nineteenth  and  the  beginning 
of  the  present  century  were  influenced  very  little 
indeed  by  the  writings  of  Marx.  Mr.  Robert 
Blatchford,  for  instance,  has  often  admitted  that 


212  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 

he  has  never  even  read  Marx’s  Capital.  Mr. 
H.  M.  Hyndman  was  the  best  exponent  of  Marx¬ 
ism,  but  he  is  generally  regarded  by  the  modem 
Marxians  as  “unsound,”  because  he  is  a  “Social 
patriot.”  Until  recently,  then,  Socialism  in  Eng¬ 
land  was  more  English  in  its  aims  and  methods 
than  International  or  Marxian  Socialism.  But 
just  before  the  outbreak  of  war  there  was  a 
noticeable  drift  of  the  young  men  in  the  Labour 
movement  towards  Marxian  Socialism,  with  the 
consequent  tendency  towards  Internationalism  and 
revolution.  Since  the  Armistice  this  Left  Wing 
movement  has  grown  considerably,  and  Marxian 
economic  classes  have  been  constantly  increasing 
in  numbers.  Hundreds  of  workers  now  attend 
these  classes,  where  they  are  taught  the  ethics  of 
the  “class  war”  and  the  need  for  revolution. 

It  was  the  demand  of  the  Marxists  for  this  type 
of  “education”  for  the  wage-earners  that  caused 
the  split  in  Ruskin  College  and  led  to  the  forma¬ 
tion  of  the  Labour  College,  now  financed  by  the 
National  Union  of  Railwaymen  and  South  Wales 
Miners’  Federation,  and  by  the  recently  formed 
Postal  Workers’  Union.  This  so-called  educa¬ 
tional  movement  is  one  of  the  most  active  Bolshe¬ 
vist  organizations  in  this  country.  The  staffs  of 


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the  colleges,  especially  in  the  North,  are  almost 
entirely  composed  of  avowed  Bolsheviks  and  offi¬ 
cial  members  of  societies  affiliated  to  the  Third 
International  at  Moscow. 

The  Labour  Colleges  and  the  local  economic 
classes  run  in  connection  with  these  Colleges  are 
mainly  concerned  with  the  promulgation  of  Marx¬ 
ism  and  the  peculiar  Internationalism,  or  anti- 
patriotism,  that  is  the  foundation  of  the  revolu¬ 
tionary  movement  in  Great  Britain.  Just  prior 
to  the  outbreak  of  war  negotiations  were  taking 
place  for  the  establishment  of  an  ‘‘International 
of  Young  Proletarian  Students.”  The  people  most 
interested  in  the  formation  of  this  International 
organization  were  the  Germans.  The  German 
Social  Democrats  were  to  be  mainly  responsible 
for  the  financing  of  the  whole  scheme.  Here  in 
England,  the  persons  chiefly  concerned  with  the 
plan  were  the  Marxists,  including  German  and 
Russian  Jews.  The  scheme  should  have  been 
launched  at  the  International  Congress  which  was 
fixed  for  August,  1914.  The  war  prevented  the 
Congress  being  held.  It  is  not  without  significance 
that  the  persons  in  this  country  who  were  conduct¬ 
ing  the  negotiations  with  the  Germans  became, 
on  the  outbreak  of  war,  actively  associated  with 


214  THE  cause  of  world  unrest 


various  pro-German  and  Defeatist  societies,  and 
some  of  them  got  into  trouble  with  the  authorities 
in  consequence. 

This  German-inspired  scheme  for  the  Inter¬ 
national  education  of  the  proletariat  of  every 
country  contained  the  following  proposals: 

“(i)  An  International  Federation  of  such  So¬ 
cialist  and  Labour  Colleges  as  are  provided  and 
controlled  by  working-class  organizations  inde¬ 
pendently  and  not  in  co-partnership  with  those 
bulwarks  of  Capitalism — the  Church  and  the 
Universities. 

“(: 2 )  An  International  Working-class  Students’ 
Union,  in  order  to  secure  the  rank  and  file  character 
of  this  union,  the  unit  to  be  not  the  Labour  ‘  Leader” 
or  the  Great  Committee  of  such  ‘  Leaders  ’  but  the 
class  (controlled  by  the  workers)  for  the  study  of 
the  principles  of  International  Socialism. 

“(3)  A  system  of  International  Travelling 
Scholarships  to  facilitate  an  interchange  between 
various  countries  of  lectures  on  International 
Socialism,  and  also  to  make  it  possible  for  working- 
class  students  (men  and  women)  to  visit  and  study 
the  conditions  in  other  countries  than  their  own, 
and  to  report  to  their  organizations. 

“(4)  An  International  Socialist  Library,  in 
order  to  bring  within  the  reach  of  working-class 
students  translations  of  the  best  works  on  Inter- 


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national  Socialism  published  in  various  countries, 
and  in  connection  with  this  library  an  Inter¬ 
national  Journal  of  Education  showing  the  de¬ 
velopments  in  education  in  different  countries.” 

The  war  prevented  the  realization  of  this  plan, 
and  now  that  Germany  is  scarcely  in  a  position  to 
finance  the  scheme,  efforts  are  being  made  to  link 
it  with  the  Third  International  and  to  make  the 
Soviet  Government  responsible  for  its  direction  and 
control.  The  Labour  delegates  to  Russia  brought 
back  a  letter  from  Tchicherin  on  this  matter  in 
which  he  promises  to  consider  how  this  scheme 
can  be  put  into  operation.  The  recipient  of  this 
letter,  Mrs.  Bridges  Adams,  writing  to  a  Bolshevist 
paper,  the  Socialist ,  official  organ  of  the  Socialist 
Labour  Party,  states  that  some  months  ago,  if 
peace  had  been  made  with  Russia,  it  was  proposed 
to  send  from  Britain  this  summer  a  party  of 
students  of  the  many  classes  now  being  held  for 
the  study  of  Marxian  economics  and  industrial 
history — about  two  hundred,  including  a  con¬ 
tingent  from  the  James  Connolly  Labour  College 
in  Dublin,  to  Russia,  the  others  to  Italy,  Germany, 
and  Switzerland. 

Mrs.  Adams  adds  that  at  the  present  time,  in 
order  to  meet  the  cost  of  this  Mission,  Mrs.  Ethel 


216  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Carnie  Holdsworth,  the  ex-mill-girl  authoress,  is 
appealing  for  £2000. 

“However,  if  the  money  is  not  forthcoming  in 
Britain,  an  international  appeal  will  be  issued. 
From  Russia,  when  once  the  difficulties  of  which 
Tchicherin  has  written  me  are  removed,  the  re¬ 
sponse  will  be  generous,  even  to  the  extent,  if 
necessary,  of  sending  a  ship  for  the  students  and 
defraying  the  cost  of  the  Mission.  Comrades  will 
see  the  great  possibilities  of  this  movement.” 

Mrs.  Adams  expresses  the  hope  that  this  Inter¬ 
national  of  Young  Proletarian  Students  will  work 
“within  and  as  an  integral  part  of  the  Moscow  or 
Third  International.”  She  desires  support  for 
Tchicherin ’s  policy  ‘ 1  to  bring  together  our  Socialist 
Labour  students  and  Russian  students ;  to  support 
him  by  an  earnest  propaganda  on  the  movement 
here  outlined  in  the  factories  and  in  the  mines,  and 
in  the  branches  of  working-class  organizations. 
No  mission  from  Britain  would  be  more  welcome 
in  Russia  than  a  proletarian  students’  mission. 
The  Russian  Socialists  understand  the  meaning  of 
International  Labour  solidarity,  and  will  not  visit 
upon  young  British  workers  the  hellish  crimes  of 
British  Imperialism  against  Soviet  Russia.  .  .  . 
Long  live  the  youth  of  the  Red  International.” 


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From  the  above  statement  it  seems  that  the 
Soviet  Government,  with  its  overwhelming  Jewish 
influence,  is  now  likely  to  take  the  place  originally 
assigned  to  the  German  Social  Democrats  for  the 
control  and  direction  of  the  “education”  of  the 
Labour  movement  in  Great  Britain  and  other 
countries.  In  either  case,  however,  the  Inter¬ 
national  Jews  would  be  the  controlling  power,  and 
we  know  that  the  instruction  provided  for  the 
wage-earners  at  the  economic  classes  and  at  the 
Labour  Colleges  is  based  on  the  writings  and 
theories  of  Jewish  authorities  in  the  world  of  In¬ 
ternational  Socialism. 

The  “Young  Socialists’  International”  is  a 
movement  to  capture  for  Bolshevism  the  boys  and 
girls  of  the  working  class.  At  an  international 
Conference  held  at  Berlin  last  December,  it  was 
decided  to  call  it  the  “Young  Communist  Inter¬ 
national,”  and  to  affiliate  to  the  Moscow  Inter¬ 
national.  The  British  Section  is  the  “Young 
Socialist  League,  ”  and  its  official  organ,  first  issued 
in  May  last,  is  the  Red  Flag.  The  editor  is  Nathan 
B.  Whycer.  The  leaders  in  London  are  persons 
with  such  British  names  as  Saphire,  Zeital,  and 
Troubman.  In  the  first  issue  of  the  Red  Flag 
there  is  an  article  on  the  Berlin  Conference  of 


218  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


young  Socialists,  written  by  A.  Fineberg.  This 
article  is  followed  by  a  letter  from  the  “Executive 
Committee  of  the  Young  Communist  Inter¬ 
national,”  dated  Berlin,  February,  1920.  The 
letter  concludes  with  the  following  statement : 

“Just  as  the  Russian  youth  in  Russia  are  de¬ 
fending  the  Socialist  Republic  in  the  front  rank 
of  the  Red  army,  just  as  in  Germany  the  Socialist 
youth  are  the  standard  bearers  of  revolutionary 
Socialism,  so  the  proletarian  youth  in  the  countries 
of  the  Entente  will  enter  the  struggle  for  the  over¬ 
throw  of  the  bourgeois  Governments  and  the  de¬ 
struction  of  the  Capitalist  States,  and  for  the 
victory  of  communism  through  the  dictatorship 
of  the  proletariat.” 

Before  a  revolution  can  take  place  in  any  coun¬ 
try,  much  preparatory  work  must  be  done.  A 
revolutionary  situation  must  first  be  created,  and 
if  the  natural  conditions  of  society  do  not  tend  in 
this  direction,  efforts  must  be  made  to  force  them 
into  the  right  channel  for  revolution.  This  is  the 
purpose  of  the  revolutionary  Socialists  and  Syn¬ 
dicalists  in  this  country.  Our  revolutionaries, 
working  in  conjunction  with  foreign  revolution¬ 
aries,  who  are  mainly  International  Jews,  have  to 
find  ways  and  means  of  creating  in  Great  Britain 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  219 


an  industrial  crisis  of  such  a  magnitude  that  a 
revolution  will  be  practically  inevitable.  This  is 
the  immediate  problem  of  the  revolutionary  move¬ 
ment  here.  How  will  this  crisis  be  brought  about? 

A  very  significant  quotation  has  already  been 
given : 

“Want  and  opinion  are  the  two  agents  which 
make  all  men  act.  Cause  the  want,  govern  the 
opinions,  and  you  will  overturn  all  the  existing 
systems,  however  well  consolidated  these  may 
appear.” 

This  is  sound  revolutionary  doctrine.  Now,  the 
whole  case  for  Marxism  rests  on  the  entire  break¬ 
up  of  the  existing  social  order.  Marx  himself 
believed  that  this  would  be  brought  about  by 
hunger  and  want  driving  the  masses  into  a  violent 
revolution.  The  theory  was  that  the  development 
of  the  capitalist  system  would  be  in  the  direction 
of  an  ever- widening  gulf  between  the  rich  and  the 
poor.  He  wrote  that  “the  rich  are  getting  richer, 
the  poor  poorer,  the  middle  class  is  being  crushed 
out,  ”  and  he  predicted  that  the  condition  of  the 
workers  would  become  worse  until  they  were 
driven  by  sheer  desperation  to  revolution.  “Then 
the  knell  of  the  capitalistic  system  will  have 


220  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


sounded.  The  producers  will  assert  themselves 
under  the  pressure  of  an  irresistible  impulse ;  they 
will  repossess  themselves  of  the  implements  of 
production  of  which  they  have  been  so  long 
deprived.” 

These  predictions  of  Marx  have  been  falsified 
by  events.  The  extreme  poverty  and  sufferings 
of  the  workers,  on  which  his  anticipations  were 
based,  have  not  been  experienced,  least  of  all  in 
this  country.  The  British  worker  has,  on  the 
whole,  greatly  improved  his  economic  position 
since  Marx  made  his  predictions.  And  this  com¬ 
parative  prosperity  of  the  British  worker  is  the 
greatest  obstacle,  not  only  to  a  revolution  in  this 
country,  but  to  the  world  revolution  planned  by 
the  foreign  revolutionaries.  It  is  admitted  by 
Trotsky  and  by  Dr.  Hermann  Gorter,  author  of 
The  World  Revolution,  that  their  plans  for  a  world¬ 
wide  revolution  cannot  be  successful  so  long  as 
there  is  a  united  British  Empire.  This  was  also 
the  opinion  of  Karl  Marx. 

The  problem  of  the  international  organizers  of 
revolution  consists  of  (i)  how  to  destroy  Britain’s 
industrial  prosperity,  and  (2)  how  to  break  up  the 
British  Empire.  The  first  of  these  objects  is  to  be 
realized  by  strikes,  the  reduction  of  output,  and  by 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  221 


constant  demands  for  higher  wages  until  the  profits 
of  each  industry  are  absorbed  by  Labour.  The 
second  object  is  to  be  attained  by  supporting  and 
organizing  rebellions  and  insurrections  in  various 
parts  of  the  Empire.  The  cumulative  effect  of  this 
policy,  if  successful,  would  certainly  be  extreme 
poverty  and  suffering  for  the  masses,  and  a  “revo¬ 
lutionary  situation”  would  undoubtedly  exist. 
If  at  the  same  time  opinion  were  properly  con¬ 
trolled  it  would  be  possible  to  overthrow  the  exist¬ 
ing  social  order,  and  to  set  up  a  Dictatorship  of  the 
kind  advocated  by  the  International  Socialists. 
In  the  International  publications  of  the  Bolsheviks, 
which  are  widely  circulated  in  this  country,  will 
be  found  proposals  for  the  destruction  of  our  in¬ 
dustries,  the  break-up  of  the  Empire,  and  for  the 
control  of  opinion  by  a  Minority  acting  as  a  Dic¬ 
tatorship.  In  this  effort  to  bring  about  a  revolu¬ 
tion  all  sorts  of  methods  are  proposed.  A  writer  in 
the  Worker ,  the  organ  of  the  Scottish  Workers' 
Committees,  states: 

“It  must  not  be  supposed  that,  though  we  pin 
great  faith  in  improved  industrial  organization, 
we  are  industrial  absolutists,  relying  on  industrial 
action  alone  to  bring  about  the  workers'  emancipa¬ 
tion.  As  Karl  Radek  so  finely  puts  it:  ‘Victory 


222  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


has  got  to  be  earned  by  a  daily  combat  with  the 
bourgeoisie  on  all  the  domains  of  social  life,  a  com¬ 
bat  developing  finally  into  direct  revolutionary 
strife,  class  against  class/  The  industrial  weapon 
will  have  to  be  supplemented  by  other  weapons 
evolved  by  the  workers  as  the  struggle  increases  in 
intensity.  The  strike,  supplemented  by  the  other 
weapons,  will  have  to  be  used  against  the  State,  as 
well  as  against  the  employers,  until  the  Capitalist 
State  has  been  brought  to  the  ground  and  the 
workers,  under  the  shield  of  the  proletarian  dic¬ 
tatorship,  are  building  up  the  new  Communist 
Republic.”  (The  Worker,  June  12,  1920.) 

What  the  Jew,  Karl  Radek,  means  is  indicated 
in  an  article  he  has  recently  written  for  the  Call , 
the  organ  of  the  British  Socialist  Party — a  party  of 
which  the  members  in  London  are  mainly  foreign 
Jews,  as  any  one  can  see  who  attends  a  London 
meeting  of  the  party.  In  this  article,  Radek  states 
that  if  Great  Britain  does  not  come  to  terms  with 
the  Soviet  Government,  the  British  Empire  will  be 
attacked  by  the  Bolsheviks  at  its  most  vulnerable 
point — India.  The  quotation  the  Worker  gives 
from  Radek  recalls  the  boast  of  the  “Elders  of 
Zion”  that  they  have  instilled  class  hatred  into 
the  peoples. 

.  The  revolutionaries  in  Great  Britain,  acting  on 


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instructions  from  the  International  at  Moscow, 
profess  to  believe  that  the  capitalist  system  cannot 
recover  from  the  economic  effects  of  the  war,  and 
they  quote  in  support  of  this  conclusion  a  book, 
Capitalism  Today ,  by  Ernst  Kahn,  an  American 
Marxist.  This  book  is  very  popular  with  the 
Marxian  economic  classes,  and  a  cheap  edition  is 
shortly  to  be  published  by  Charles  Kerr,  publisher 
for  the  American  Socialists.  Under  the  economic 
crisis  that  is  developing,  the  workers  will  be  driven 
“to  rebel  against  the  whole  regime ,  and  will  sub¬ 
stitute  their  own  power.  It  is  here  that  the  func¬ 
tion  of  the  Communist  arises.  The  workers,  as  a 
whole,  rebel  against  a  regime  of  which  they  feel 
the  pricks,  without  any  preconceived  doctrinaire 
theory.  It  is  the  business  of  the  Communist  to 
guide  their  movements  into  its  realization  in  the 
dictatorship  of  the  proletariat.” 

This  advice  is,  we  find,  generally  acted  upon  in 
Labour  disputes  in  this  country.  For  instance,  in 
an  article  on  the  gas  strike  at  Manchester,  in  the 
Workers'  Dreadnought ,  July  17th,  1920,  it  is  stated 
that  “Communists  ought  to  be  on  the  spot  wher¬ 
ever  such  spontaneous  revolts  occur,  doing  vital 
propaganda,  endeavouring  to  communistically 
educate  discontent.” 


224  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


The  writer  goes  on  to  express  satisfaction  with 
this  strike,  and  states  that  this  working-class 
power  “if  used  in  the  general  strike  would  bring, 
not  merely  a  wage  increase  for  a  few,  or  all,  but 
create  in  the  industrial  world  right  and  ripe  condi¬ 
tions  for  full  proletarian  control.” 


CHAPTER  XVI 

In  every  part  of  the  country  we  find  that  the  In¬ 
ternational  Revolutionaries  desire  to  control  and 
direct  Labour  unrest  and  discontent.  They  have 
a  general  contempt  for  the  intelligence  of  the 
masses,  and  assume  that  they  will  never  go  in  the 
right  direction  without  their  guidance.  This  con¬ 
tempt  for  public  opinion  is  fully  expressed  by  Mr. 
G.  D.  H.  Cole  in  his  book,  The  World  of  Labour , 

P-  34- 

“For  if  there  can  be  greater  dishonesty  in  en¬ 
visaging  the  problem,  a  greater  refusal  to  face  the 
facts,  than  that  which  the  aspiring  politician  has  to 
learn,  it  is  assuredly  to  be  found  in  the  narrowness, 
egoism,  and  intellectual  indolence  that  characterize 
the  great  British  public.  If  the  industrial  revolu¬ 
tion  has  turned  the  worker  into  a  mere  producing 
machine,  it  has  quite  equally  turned  the  public 
into  a  mass  of  mere  consumers,  with  consciences 
always  in  their  pockets  and  brains  nowhere  or 
directed  to  anything  rather  than  the  social  ques¬ 
tion.  In  this  country,  at  least,  it  is  useless  to 

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226  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


invoke  public  opinion,  because  it  is  selfish,  unen¬ 
lightened,  and  vindictive.” 

How  this  direction  of  the  workers  towards  re¬ 
volution  is  to  be  secured  is  explained  in  the  Call 
of  May  20,  1920,  in  an  article  on  “Communist 
Organization.”  The  Call  is  the  official  organ  of  the 
British  Socialist  Party  (London),  and  Tchicherin, 
Litvinov,  Fineberg,  and  other  members  of  the 
Soviet  Government  were  active  members  of  the 
B.S.P.  when  living  in  London.  Karl  Radek,  Clara 
Zetkin  (German  Spartacists),  N.  Osinsky,  and 
many  other  Jewish  revolutionaries  of  the  Con¬ 
tinent  are  frequent  contributors  to  it.  The  party 
is  affiliated  to  the  Third  International,  and  the 
letter  from  Lenin  to  the  British  Workers,  brought 
by  Messrs.  Shaw  and  Turner,  was  directed  to  the 
B.S.P.,  and  contained  a  covering  letter  on  behalf 
of  Lenin,  signed  by  Marcel  Rosenberg. 

The  article  referred  to  outlines  the  methods  to 
be  adopted  by  the  revolutionaries  to  prepare  the 
Labour  movement  for  the  coming  revolution.  The 
writer  describes  the  working-class  organizations 
as  in  the  main  “like  rudderless  craft  in  conflicting 
currents.  The  mission  of  the  Communist  is  to 
supply  the  rudder.” 


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“During  the  stormy  period  of  transition  from 
Capitalism  to  Socialism,  we  shall  require  new 
machinery  of  government  and  production.  May 
it  not  be  that  we  can  use  the  Trade  Unions  as  our 
machinery  of  production,  and  the  Co-operative 
movement  as  the  framework  of  our  machinery  of 
distribution? 

“We  need  a  revolutionary  Communist  group  in 
every  Trade  Union  branch,  in  every  local  Labour 
Party,  on  every  committee  of  management  of  a 
Co-operative  Society;  responsible  directly  to  the 
branch  of  the  Party  in  that  locality,  guiding  the 
mass  of  the  workers  into  the  Communist  path,  pre¬ 
paring  for  the  day  when  the  existing  machinery 
of  society  is  no  longer  adequate  to  carry  out  the 
desires  of  the  people. 

“By  these  means  the  existing  working-class 
organizations  can  be  made  to  serve  the  purpose  of 
the  revolutionary  proletariat.  Each  branch  of  the 
Party  should  co-ordinate  the  activities  of  these  or¬ 
ganizations  in  its  area  and  render  periodical  reports 
to  Party  headquarters.  Headquarters  would  thus 
become  the  real  nerve-centre  of  Communist  propa¬ 
ganda.  By  this  means,  in  a  short  time  it  would  be 
possible  to  ensure  the  election  of  Communists  to 
all  executive  and  organizing  posts  in  the  Trade 
Unions  and  the  Labour  Party. 

“At  the  same  time,  recruiting  should  be  pro¬ 
ceeded  with  from  the  point  of  view  of  attracting 
to  our  Party  the  flower  of  the  proletariat.  If  a 


228  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


young  man  of  promise  is  elected  as  branch  secre¬ 
tary  or  shop-steward  in  a  Trade  Union,  he  should 
become  the  objective  of  intensive  personal  propa¬ 
ganda  to  convert  him  to  our  ideals.  By  thus 
supplying  the  bulk  of  the  acknowledged  leaders 
of  the  working  class,  it  would  follow  that  the 
lead  of  the  Communist  Party  would  be  in¬ 
stinctively  followed  in  a  time  of  crisis.  Wherever 
workers  meet  to  discuss  wages  or  the  conditions  of 
existence,  there  should  be  found  a  group  of  com¬ 
rades  ready  to  help  them  in  their  immediate  aims, 
and  at  the  same  time  point  to  the  root  cause  of  all 
their  grievances  and  suffering  in  order  to  make 
them  realize  that  only  with  the  overthrow  of 
Capitalism  can  their  conditions  be  permanently 
bettered.  .  .  . 

“It  is  at  least  certain,  however,  that  only  by 
becoming  the  leaders  and  guiding  force  of  such 
organizations  as  exist  today  can  the  Communist 
and  the  revolutionary  tomorrow  hope  to  carry  with 
them  the  mass  of  the  proletariat. 

“Close  up  the  ranks,  comrades !” 

In  the  same  issue  is  an  article  by  Otto  Maschl, 
reproduced  from  Le  Bulletin  Communiste ,  on  the 
function  of  Workers’  Councils,  in  which  he  de¬ 
scribes  them  as  “revolutionary  ante-chambers .” 
“They  are  the  touchstones,  which  constantly 
excite  the  hatred  of  the  bourgeoisie,  even  if  they 


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are  not  at  all  inspired  with  revolutionary  senti¬ 
ments.  F or  they  are  the  most  suitable  instruments 
for  keeping  alive  the  class  war.” 

The  aims  of  these  organizers  of  revolution  are 
revealed  in  an  article  by  Clara  Zetkin,  specially 
written  for  the  Call  of  April  29,  1920.  This  writer 
is  a  Jewess,  and  has  taken  the  place  of  Rosa  Luxem¬ 
bourg  as  a  leader  of  the  German  Communists.  In 
this  article  she  describes  the  progress  the  Inter¬ 
national  Revolutionaries  are  now  making. 

“Over  Italy  roar  the  thunders  of  the  coming 
storm;  in  France  there  is  sheet-lightning;  storms 
rage  through  the  proud  Empire  of  Great  Britain. 
In  England  and  Scotland  growing  masses  of 
workers  unite  round  the  Socialist,  the  Communist, 
flag.  Ireland,  Egypt,  and  India  are  in  revolt.  The 
wage  slaves  in  the  United  States  muster  for  the 
class  struggle;  their  strikes  become  greater  and 
greater  in  extent,  more  important,  and  take  a 
revolutionary  character.  The  international  situa¬ 
tion,  in  consequence  of  the  diplomatic  squabbling 
among  the  Allied  Powers  for  the  booty  of  the  world 
war,  is  rich  in  conflicts,  pregnant  with  future  wars. 
Here,  too,  the  economic  basis  of  Capitalist  order, 
class  antagonism,  and  class  struggles,  grow  in 
intensity  and  bitterness.  From  beneath  the 
volcanic  depths  of  Society  rises  Socialism,  Com¬ 
munism.” 


230  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


She  goes  on  to  call  not  for  resolutions  but  for 
mass  action. 

“Now  the  battle  between  workers  and  bourgeois 
is  no  longer  one  for  reforms  in  the  Capitalist  order, 
its  aim  is  to  overthrow,  to  subdue  this  order.  Capi¬ 
talism  or  Socialism  and  Communism  is  the  battle- 
cry.  No  resolutions  on  paper  must  be  the  aim,  but 
the  living,  powerful  action  of  the  working  masses.” 

She  concludes  by  appealing  to  the  British 
workers  to  rally  “to  the  red  banner  of  the  Third 
International,  ’  ’  and  sends  them  greetings  from  the 
Communists  of  “Germany  in  revolution.” 

In  the  Socialist ,  the  organ  of  the  Socialist  Labour 
Party  (Glasgow),  which  is  affiliated  to  the  Third 
International  and  provides  nearly  all  the  strike 
leaders  on  the  Clyde,  there  appeared  on  April 
22,  1920,  a  statement  from  the  Communist  Bureau 
at  Amsterdam  urging  the  workers  in  Great  Britain 
to  strike  on  May  Day.  The  appeal  is  signed  by 
H.  Roland  Holst.  In  the  course  of  this  statement 
it  is  declared  that  “a  real  peace”  with  the  Soviet 
Republic  of  Russia  “is  impossible  under  Capital¬ 
ism.”  “A  real  peace  for  Russia  means  the  victory 
of  the  World  Revolution,  and  nothing  less.”  He 
advises  other  countries  to  strive  towards  Soviet 
Republics. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  231 


“This  inspiring  aim  we  must  always  have  in 
mind  in  all  our  deeds,  in  all  our  actions.  We  must 
fill  our  heads  with  revolutionary  thoughts,  we 
must  be  willing  to  destroy  the  weapons  of  our 
enemies.  .  .  .  All  this  we  can  only  achieve  in  a 
constant  fight  with  our  exploiters,  by  giving  this 
fight  a  general  revolutionary  character.  It  means 
a  complete  break  with  bourgeois  civilization,  bour¬ 
geois  morals,  bourgeois  supremacy.  It  means 
Labour  as  the  basic  principle  of  social  and  moral 
life.  .  .  .  The  outward  fagade  of  the  bourgeois 
state  of  society  still  exists,  but  it  may  fall  to  pieces 
at  any  moment,  although  a  long  and  severe  struggle 
will  doubtless  be  necessary,  as  much  to  finally 
crush  the  bourgeoisie  as  to  affect  in  the  mass  of  the 
people  the  moral  and  intellectual  transformation 
that  will  make  them  able  to  institute  the  Com¬ 
munist  Commonwealth,  and  render  them  fit  to 
live  in  it.  We  may  be  convinced  that  any  little 
thing,  an  indifferent  circumstance,  may  now  at 
any  moment,  by  causing  the  countless  elements  of 
the  new  revolutionary  consciousness  floating  all 
over  the  world  to  unite  into  a  new  body  and  mani¬ 
fest  themselves  with  unexpected  force,  be  the 
instigator  of  renewed  strife  and  promiseful  up¬ 
heaval.  .  .  .  The  times  for  the  passing  of  Capital¬ 
ism  are  ripe,  and  any  dead  calm  may  be  the 
foreboder  of  new  social  storms  unexpectedly 
rising.” 

“Prompted  by  these  considerations,”  the  Am- 


232  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


sterdam  Bureau  urges  the  workers’  organizations 
to  be  prepared  for  action  and  to  strike  on  May  Day 
1920,  “in  favour  of  Soviet  Russia.” 

The  Executive  of  the  Amsterdam  Sub-Bureau 
of  the  Third  International  is  one  of  the  chief 
foreign  influences  that  affect  our  revolutionary 
societies.  The  manifestoes  of  this  Bureau  are 
signed  by  D.  J.  Wynkoop,  Henrietta  Roland  Holst, 
and  G.  J.  Rutgers.  In  the  B.S.P.  organ,  the  Call 
of  April  1,  1920,  there  is  a  long  manifesto  from  this 
Bureau  entitled  “German  Revolution:  An  Appeal 
to  the  British,  French,  and  Belgian  Proletariat.” 
After  condemning  the  Allies  for  their  treatment  of 
Germany,  it  bursts  into  exhortations. 

“Workers  of  the  Entente!  Loudly  proclaim 
your  solidarity  with  the  German  revolution ! 
Compel  your  Governments  to  withdraw  the  troops 
from  the  occupied  territory.  Rail  way  men!  Re¬ 
fuse  to  allow  the  transport  of  any  troops  or  any 
arms  or  munitions  to  Germany.  All  of  you  answer 
any  attempt  on  the  part  of  your  Governments  to 
strangle  the  German  revolution  by  extending  and 
intensifying  your  own  revolutionary  activity.” 

The  writers  of  this  manifesto  compliment  the 
British  Proletariat  on  the  magnificent  meetings 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  233 


of  the  “Hands  off  Russia”  Committee,  and  they 
state  that  the  revolutions  in  various  countries  are 
part  of  one  revolution,  the  Social  Revolution.  The 
“fate  of  the  European  Revolution  depends  on 
you,”  they  write,  and  conclude  with  “Hurrah  for 
the  Communist  Revolution  in  Germany !  Hurrah 
for  the  World  Revolution,  the  Universal  Soviet 
Republic!” 

In  an  article  by  Dr.  Hermann  Gorter  written 
for  Data  (February,  1920),  the  “organ  of  the 
Socialist  Information  and  Research  Bureau” 
(Scotland),  he  specially  appeals  to  the  British 
workers  to  lead  the  European  Revolution — the 
English  proletariat  “must  place  itself  at  the  head 
of  the  proletariat  in  Western  Europe.  ”  “  The  fate 
of  the  world  revolution,  the  fate  of  humanity,  lies 
in  the  hands  of  the  English  workers.” 

Among  the  supporters  of  this  Bolshevist  cam¬ 
paign  against  the  British  Empire  is  Mr.  E.  D. 
Morel,  of  the  notorious  Union  of  Democratic 
Control.  Writing  in  Foreign  Affairs ,  the  organ  of 
the  U.D.C.,  for  June,  1920,  Mr.  Morel  discusses 
“The  Why  and  the  Wherefore  of  the  War  against 
Russia.”  The  British  attack  on  the  Bolsheviks  is, 
according  to  Mr.  Morel,  inspired  by  fear  of  the 
result  of  a  strong  Socialist  State  in  Russia. 


234  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


‘  ‘  The  advent  of  a  great  Socialist  State  in  Europe 
is  a  solvent  of  Empire.  Empire — the  dominion 
over  many  nationally  conscious  peoples  by  a  single 
alien  people — and  Socialism  are  irreconcilable 
factors.  They  are  mutually  destructive.  The 
Imperialists  who  presently  govern  the  British 
Empire  and  who  contemplate  the  consequences 
of  the  triumphant  emergence  of  a  great  Socialist 
State  in  the  geographical  position  of  Russia — half 
European,  half  Asiatic — are  not  thinking  in  terms 
of  Britain  when  they  seek  to  prevent  such  a  con¬ 
summation.  They  are  thinking  in  terms  of  the 
British  Empire.” 

After  stating  that  British  capital  has  nothing 
“to  fear  from  the  growth  to  adolescence  of  a  Rus¬ 
sian  Socialist  State,”  because  Lenin  is  willing  to 
give  us  trading  concessions  if  we  will  make  peace 
with  him,  he  says:  “But  British  Imperialism  has 
everything  to  fear  from  the  survival  of  Soviet 
Russia.” 

‘  ‘  The  heart  of  the  British  Empire  beats  in  Asia — 
I  speak,  not  of  the  Commonwealth,  but  of  the 
Empire.  .  .  .  The  Russian  mind  knows  how  to 
read  the  Asiatic  mind.  Picture  Russia  a  Socialist 
State,  freed  from  her  external  foes,  flanked  by  a 
series  of  racially  alien  or  politically  allied — some¬ 
times  both — lesser  States,  not  in  Europe  only  but 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  235 


in  Asia,  States  enjoying  full  autonomy,  permeated 
with  Socialist  ideals  and  precepts  and  practices 
radiating  from  a  centre  where  education  and 
science  have  been  elevated  into  fine  arts,  where  the 
treasures  of  knowledge,  the  accumulated  learning 
of  the  ages  are  thrown  open  to  all,  made  accessible 
to  the  humblest  citizen.  Picture  Russia  thus — 
then  look  at  India,  Persia,  Afghanistan,  Burma, 
under  present  conditions.  Need  you  ask  why 
British  Imperialism  shrinks  at  the  prospect  and 
fears ;  fears  unutterably  as  it  scans  the  future  ?  ’  ’ 


Mr.  Morel  goes  on  to  declare  that  British  Im¬ 
perialism  is  today  more  unyielding  and  intolerant 
in  consequence  of  the  “very  magnitude  of  its 
successes  in  the  war,”  which  have  intoxicated  it. 
“It  has  become  a  militarist  Imperialism  as  it  never 
was  before.”  Lenin  and  Trotsky  have  discredited 
Western  diplomacy,  and  “the  dangers  to  be 
apprehended  from  the  future  are  so  enormous  for 
the  existing  Order  that  the  Russian  wreckers  of 
the  occult  power  which  rules  the  people’s  lives 
must  be  broken.”  Morel  therefore  concludes  that 
British  Imperialism  is  fighting  the  Bolsheviks 
because  it  “knows  its  very  existence  is  at 
stake.” 

These  statements  from  Morel  resemble  those  of 


236  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Trotsky  and  Radek  on  attacking  the  British  Em¬ 
pire  in  Asia. 

The  “Elders  of  Zion ”  used  “anarchy  as  a  means 
to  an  end.”  This  view  is  supported  by  the  mani¬ 
festo  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Third 
International,  published  in  the  Call  of  April  22, 
1920,  and  signed  by  G.  Zinoviev.  This  manifesto 
states  that  the  revolutionary  forces  in  France, 
America,  England,  and  Germany  are  growing,  and 
“  Anarcho-Socialist  bodies  and  those  individuals 
who  till  now  claimed  to  be  orthodox  anarchists, 
mix  themselves  up  with  the  others  in  the  general 
current.  The  Executive  Committee  of  the  Third 
International  welcomes  this  most  cordially.”  After 
explaining  how  Syndicalists  and  Anarchists,  being 
opposed  to  Parliaments,  may  help  on  the  world 
revolution,  the  Committee  declare  that  “the 
bourgeois  State,  its  Kings,  Presidents,  Parliaments, 
Constituent  Assemblies,  etc.,  are  our  deadly  ene¬ 
mies  and  must  be  crushed.”  They  point  out  that 
it  is  possible  at  times  to  further  the  revolution  in  a 
country  by  participating  in  political  action,  and 
they  instance  Liebknecht  in  Germany  and  Hog- 
lund  in  Sweden.  The  latter,  ‘  ‘  utilizing  Parliament, 
precipitated  the  collapse  of  Parliamentism.  No¬ 
body  has  ever  done  more  than  he  in  Sweden  for  the 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  237 

Revolution.”  The  same  again  in  Bulgaria,  where 
the  ‘  ‘  Communists  also  used  the  pulpit  of  Par¬ 
liament  for  the  propagation  of  the  ideas  of  the 
Communist  Revolution.”  These  revolutionaries 
are  to  enter  Parliament  with  the  intention  of 
getting  “into  closest  touch  with  its  machinery, 
and  then  put  spokes  in  its  wheels.” 

Conditions  in  England,  France,  and  America 
are  not  yet  ripe  for  the  overthrow  of  the  State. 
In  these  countries  “there  have  been  very  few 
individuals  who  could  be  said  to  resemble 
the  Russian  Bolsheviks  or  the  German  Spar- 
tacists.”  So  the  Committee  at  Moscow  advise 
that: 


“If  such  elements  (Bolsheviks  and  Spartacists) 
increase  in  numbers  and  strength,  everything  may 
get  changed.  At  first  it  is  necessary:  (1)  The 
centre  of  gravity  of  the  struggle  must  be  outside  of 
Parliaments  (strikes,  revolts,  insurrections,  etc.); 
(2)  the  struggle  inside  the  Parliaments  must  be 
closely  connected  with  the  struggle  outside;  (3) 
the  representatives  must  take  part  in  general  or¬ 
ganization  work;  (4)  the  representatives  must  act 
by  directions  of  the  Central  Committee  and  be 
responsible  to  it;  (5)  they  must  not  conform  to  the 
Parliamentary  manners  and  customs.” 


238  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


The  manifesto  concludes  with  the  following 
interesting  instructions : 

“We  have  to  state  again  that  the  most  vital 
part  of  the  struggle  must  be  outside  of  Parliament 
— on  the  street.  It  is  clear  that  the  most  effective 
weapons  of  the  workers  against  Capitalism  are: 
The  strike,  the  revolt,  armed  insurrection.  Com¬ 
rades  have  to  keep  in  mind  the  following:  Or¬ 
ganization  of  the  Party,  instalment  of  the  Party 
groups  in  the  Trade  Unions,  leadership  of  the 
masses,  etc.  Parliamentary  activities  and  partici¬ 
pation  in  elections  must  be  used  only  as  a  second¬ 
ary  measure — no  more.” 

{Colly  April  22,  1920.) 

This  manifesto  also  appeared  in  the  Socialist 
(Glasgow)  and  other  Bolshevist  papers  in  this 
country.  The  National  Council  of  Shop  Stewards* 
and  Workers’  Committees,  a  body  affiliated  to  the 
Moscow  International,  is  carrying  out  these  Mos¬ 
cow  Instructions  on  the  industrial  side. 

Confirmation  of  the  anti-Christian  nature  of 
the  Jewish  secret  organizations  described  earlier 
in  this  book  is  found  in  an  article  in  the  Call  of 
April  1,  1920.  An  article  entitled  “Man  has 
Arisen!”  by  John  Bryan,  describing  the  new 
“light  in  the  East” — Bolshevism — says: 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  239 


“The  pagan  world  could  not  have  been  worse 
than  this  world  of  Christianity.  Only  it  had  no 
bishops  to  preach  from  the  pulpits  the  Easter  lie, 
and  to  administer  ‘opium’  to  the  masses,  as  the 
Bolshevik  inscription  on  one  of  Moscow’s  church 
gates  boldly  puts  it.” 

But  “  a  new  light  has  arisen  in  the  East,  and  not 
a  will  o’  the  wisp,  a  light  that  reveals  the  truth, 
and  shows  the  road,  that  inspires  hope  and  con¬ 
fidence,  that  warms  and  encourages,  that  adds  to 
the  strength  of  the  body  and  the  soul  .  .  .  Russia 
led  by  the  Bolsheviks,  Russia  guided  by  the 
transcendent  genius  of  Lenin,  and  assisted  by  a 
host  of  workers  with  Trotsky,  the  incomparable 
organizer,  at  their  head — this  Russia  has  been  the 
saviour  of  the  world,  its  redeemer  from  cynicism, 
scepticism,  and  demoralization  which  had  been 
gnawing  at  its  very  vitals,  threatening  destruction 
and  death.  ’  ’  For  this  part  Russia  has  been  ‘  ‘  cruci¬ 
fied  by  the  capitalist  Powers,  ”  and  she  is  bleeding 
from  every  pore.  “But,  unlike  Christ,  she  did 

not  weep  bloody  tears  out  of  pity  for  herself  when 

\ 

making  up  her  mind  rather  to  be  crucified  than  to 
betray  the  trust  which  history  had  placed  in  her 
hands;  nor  is  she  likely  to  die  on  the  cross  before 
she  accomplishes  her  mission  .  .  .  she  lives,  and 


240  THE  CAUSE  OP  WORLD  UNREST 


gives  life,  and,  soon,  she  will  descend  from  the  cross 
and  cry  out  to  the  world :  ‘  Man  has  risen !  ’  ” 

In  the  study  of  the  revolutionary  movement 
in  this  country,  it  is  important  to  note  how  it  is 
guided  by  the  writings  of  foreign  revolutionaries, 
mainly  Jews.  The  following  are  only  a  few  of  the 
more  prominent  and  frequent  foreign  contributors 
to  the  Bolshevist  Press  in  Great  Britain,  whose 
books  and  articles  are  largely  circulated  in  this 
country  in  connection  with  the  Marxian  economic 
classes,  and  for  the  purpose  of  revolutionary 
propaganda.  The  works  of  Marx  and  Engels  are, 
of  course,  textbooks  in  all  classes  run  by  the 
Labour  College  Movement  and  by  the  Bolshevist 
Societies. 

The  articles  of  Lenin  and  Trotsky  are  published 
regularly  in  the  Call ,  the  Socialist,  the  Workers' 
Dreadnought,  the  Worker,  and  other  Bolshevist 
papers.  Bela  Kun  is  also  another  frequent  con¬ 
tributor  to  British  Bolshevism,  and  he  writes  to 
the  current  issue  of  the  Workers'  Dreadnought 
suggesting  that  the  “Hands  off  Russia”  Com¬ 
mittee  “should  be  used  for  Bolshevist  ends  in  the 
home  movement.”  Dr.  Hermann  Gorter  also 
writes  regularly  for  papers  in  London  and  Glas¬ 
gow,  and  his  book,  The  World  Revolution ,  published 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  241 


by  the  Socialist  Information  and  Research  Bureau 
(Glasgow),  is  on  sale  at  most  revolutionary  meet¬ 
ings  in  London  and  the  provinces.  The  following 
may  be  mentioned  as  International  Revolutionary 
leaders  who  contribute  to  the  movement  in  this 
country : 

N.  Hoglund,  of  Sweden;  Lucien  Deslinieres,  of 
France;  N.  Bucharin,  of  Moscow,  author  of  the 
Programme  of  the  World  Revolution;  Clara  Zetkin, 
Jewess  and  leader  of  the  German  Communist 
Party;  M.  I.  Kalinin,  chairman  of  All-Russian 
Central  Executive  of  Committee  of  Soviets;  Karl 
Radek,  of  Moscow;  Sadoul,  Souvarine,  Shumi- 
atzki,  I.  Marchlevski  (Karski),  Alexandre  Kolon- 
tay,  Russian  Soviet  Commissary  for  Social  Welfare. 

We  have  now  concluded  our  inquiry  into  the 
cause  of  world  unrest,  and  it  is  for  our  readers  to 
judge  how  far  it  provides  an  explanation  of  the 
revolutionary  movements  which  are  disturbing 
alike  the  faith  of  Christian  men  and  women  and 
the  whole  system  of  government  on  which  Western 
civilization  has  been  built  up.  The  famous  proto¬ 
cols  may  or  may  not  be  genuine,  but  even  the  most 
sceptical  must  admit  that  they  are  the  abstract  of 
a  philosophy  which  may  be  devilish,  but  which  is 
certainly  coherent,  and  that  in  many  important 

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242  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


points  they  not  only  anticipate,  but  explain,  some 
of  the  ills  from  which  the  world  is  at  present  suffer¬ 
ing.  It  is  the  element  of  time  which  is  inclined  to 
prejudice  the  Western,  particularly  the  English, 
reader  against  them.  Can  it  be  possible  that  any 
body  of  men  can  seriously  commit  themselves  to  a 
plot  which  is  to  be  worked  out  not  in  years  but  in 
centuries,  and  the  fruits  of  which  they  themselves 
can  never  gather?  But  it  must  be  remembered 
that  the  whole  idea  is  Eastern,  and  in  the  East 
they  still  think  in  centuries.  A  child  with  difficulty 
can  span  the  period  of  a  week,  the  ordinary  Eng¬ 
lishman  that  of  a  decade.  But  an  Englishman  who 
has  lived  long  in  the  East  has  quite  a  different 
conception  of  time,  and  would  not  find  the  long 
roll  of  years  between  the  prophecy  and  its  fruition 
a  ban  to  belief.  Therefore,  let  the  scoffers  re¬ 
member  that  all  periods  of  time  are  relative,  and 
that  to  some  a  thousand  years  may  be  as  a  day. 

In  the  first  part  of  this  book,  the  doctrines  and 
programme  of  revolutionary  Freemasonry  were 
described  and  the  liaison  between  them  and  the 
protocols  examined.  In  later  chapters,  modem 
revolutionary  phenomena  were  considered  in  the 
light  of  the  plot  revealed  earlier.  Can  we  trace  a 
connection  between  the  two?  Our  readers  must 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  243 

decide  for  themselves  on  the  evidence  submitted 
to  them.  It  has  been  shown  that  the  Continental 
Freemasons  were  primarily  responsible  for  the 
revolutions  in  Turkey  and  Portugal,  and  that  in 
the  former  at  least,  the  Jews  had  a  prominent  share 
in  this  Masonic  conspiracy.  When  the  Bolsheviks 
seized  power  in  Moscow — and  we  gave  a  table 
showing  that  the  vast  majority  of  them  were  Jews 
— the  propaganda  of  Litvinov,  Radek,  and  com¬ 
pany  took  the  place  to  a  considerable  extent  of  the 
subterranean  Masonic  activities  and  the  threads 
of  the  plot  were  therefore  easier  to  trace.  For 
example,  we  showed  how  this  Bolshevist- Jewish 
gang  tried  to  take  control  of  the  Governments  of 
Prussia,  Bavaria,  and  Hungary. 

We  also  drew  attention  to  the  secret  influences 
working  in  Paris  during  the  Peace  Conference,  to 
the  curious  fact  that  the  principle  of  self-deter¬ 
mination,  so  dangerous  at  present  to  the  authority 
of  the  British  Empire,  was  common  to  both  Wil- 
sonism  and  Leninism,  and  that  Poland,  which 
both  Jews  and  Germans  fear,  was  left  economically 
and  strategically  weak  by  the  Conference  and, 
along  with  Hungary,  has  been  malevolently  at¬ 
tacked  by  the  forces  of  International  Labour 
working  under  Bolshevist  direction.  Finally,  we 


244  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


sought  to  trace  a  link  between  the  conspiracy  and 
some  of  the  agitations  which  are  at  present  gravely 
threatening  the  security  of  the  British  Empire. 

Throughout  this  book  we  have  referred  to  the 
menace  which  this  conspiracy  constitutes  not  only 
to  civilized  government  but  to  the  Christian  faith. 
It  is  indeed  clear  that  never  in  its  history  has  that 
faith  had  to  undergo  so  organized  and  sustained 
an  attack.  Men’s  thoughts  are  continually  being 
concentrated  on  things  material,  on  the  inequali¬ 
ties  of  wealth,  on  mean  and  trivial  pleasures,  and 
are  being  told  that  the  cure  for  all  their  ills  lies  not 
in  themselves  but  in  a  peculiar  form  of  government. 
The  Bolsheviks  know  perfectly  well  that  their 
cause  can  make  no  lasting  progress  unless  it  first 
gets  rid  of  Christianity  with  its  superb  indifference 
to  the  things  on  which  the  world  sets  such  store. 
Therefore  it  may  be  taken  as  certain  that  these 
attacks  will  be  redoubled.  And  therein  perhaps 
lies  the  surest  proof  of  the  ultimate  failure  of 
Bolshevism.  For  to  the  peoples  of  Western 
Europe,  whether  they  are  conscious  of  it  or  not, 
Christianity  is  still  the  beacon  that  will  guide  them 
out  of  the  slough  of  despond  in  which  they  now 
groan.  If  that  light  were  extinguished,  they  might 
well  say  of  the  world  what  Montaigne  thought  of  it 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  245 


when  he  lost  his  friend :  “  Ce  n'est  quefumee,  ce  n'est 
qu’une  nuit  obscure  et  ennuyeuse Do  the  Bol¬ 
sheviks  honestly  believe  that  they  can  conquer  two 
worlds? 


APPENDIX  A 

To  the  Editor  of  the  “ Morning  Post ” 

‘‘Sir, — Will  you  allow  me  to  add  another  link 
to  the  very  valuable  chain  of  evidence  set  forth  in 
your  columns  on  the  question  of  Secret  Societies 
and  World  Revolution?  This  is  the  organization 
known  as  the  Alta  Vendita  or  Haute  Vente  Ro- 
maine,  which  originated  with  the  Carbonari  early 
in  the  nineteenth  century.  Monseigneur  Dillon, 
in  his  remarkable  series  of  lectures  delivered  in 
Edinburgh  in  1884,  traced  the  origin  of  the  Car¬ 
bonari  back  to  the  Illuminati  of  Bavaria.  The 
Carbonari,  however,  did  not  begin  as  a  revolu¬ 
tionary  body;  its  founders  were  Royalists  and 
Catholics  who,  deluded  as  to  the  real  aims  of 
Illuminism,  followed  the  precedent  laid  down  by 
Weishaupt  of  taking  Christ  as  their  Grand  Master. 
But  before  long  the  adepts  of  revolutionary 
masonry  invaded  their  ranks  and  obtained  the 
mastery  over  the  whole  association. 

“As  soon  as,  perhaps  sooner  than,  Weishaupt 
had  passed  away,  the  supreme  government  of  all 
the  secret  societies  of  the  world  was  exercised  by 
the  Alta  Vendita  or  highest  lodge  of  the  Italian 

246 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  247 


Carbonari.  .  .  .  The  permanent  instruction  of 
this  body  to  its  adepts  consists  mainly  in  war  on 
the  papacy,  but  it  also  admits :  ‘  Our  final  end  is 
that  of  Voltaire  and  the  French  Revolution,  the 
destruction  of  Catholicism,  and  even  of  the  Chris¬ 
tian  idea.’  ” 

The  Alta  Vendita  was  thus  a  direct  continuation 
of  the  Illuminati,  and  in  accordance  with  the 
custom  of  their  German  predecessors,  its  members 
all  elected  to  be  known  by  pseudonyms.  Thus  as 
Weishaupt  had  taken  the  name  of  Spartacus, 
Clootz  that  of  Anacharsis,  and  Rabeuf  that  of 
Gracchus,  the  head  of  the  Order,  a  corrupt  Italian 
nobleman,  is  only  known  to  us  as  Nubius.  This 
young  man,  rich,  handsome,  eloquent,  and  ab¬ 
solutely  reckless,  was  “a  visionary  with  an  idee 
fixe ,  that  of  elevating  a  pedestal  to  his  own  vanity.” 
But  it  was  not  in  the  band  of  dissolute  young 
Italians  he  gathered  around  him,  but  in  his  Jewish 
allies  that  Nubius  found  his  principal  support. 

The  documents  of  the  Alta  Vendita,  afterwards 
brought  to  light,  revealed,  says  Monseigneur 
Dillon,  that: 

“his  funds  for  carrying  on  the  deep  and  dark 
conspiracy  in  which  he  and  his  confederates  were 
engaged  came  chiefly  from  rich  German  Jews. 


248  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Jews,  in  fact,  from  the  commencement  played 
always  a  prominent  part  in  the  conspiracies  of 
Atheism.  They  do  so  still.  Piccolo  Tigre,  who 
seems  to  have  been  the  most  active  agent  of  Nu- 
bius,  was  a  Jew.  He  travelled  under  the  appear¬ 
ance  of  an  itinerant  banker  and  jeweller.  This 
character  of  money-lender  disarmed  suspicion.  .  .  . 
Of  course  he  had  the  protection  of  the  Masonic 
lodges  everywhere.  The  most  desperate  revolu¬ 
tionaries  were  generally  the  most  desperate  scoun¬ 
drels,  otherwise  they  were  gamblers,  spendthrifts, 
and  the  very  class  with  which  a  usurious  Jew  would 
be  expected  to  have  money  dealings.  Piccolo 
Tigre  thus  travelled  safely  and  brought  safely  to 
the  lodges  of  the  Carbonari  such  instructions  as  the 
Alta  Vendita  thought  proper  to  give.” 

Piccolo  Tigre  was  only  one  of  many  Jews  em¬ 
ployed  by  the  Haute  Vente;  others  of  his  race 
worked  for  the  conspiracy  in  Germany,  Hungary, 
Portugal,  and  kept  up  a  regular  correspondence 
with  Nubius.  How  far  were  these  men  acting 
merely  as  the  agents  of  their  Italian  chief?  Or 
were  they  animated  by  some  ulterior  aim?  The 
author  of  the  articles  now  appearing  in  the  Morn¬ 
ing  Post  has  indicated  the  possibility  of  a  Jewish 
conspiracy  running  through  Freemasonry,  and  Mon¬ 
seigneur  Dillon  propounds  the  same  hypothesis. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  249 


“Monseigneur  de  Segur,”  he  writes,  “connects 
modern  Freemasonry  with  Jews  and  Templars. 

.  .  .  There  are  reasons  which  lead  me  to  think 
he  may  be  right  in  doing  so.  The  Jews  for  many 
centuries  before  the  Reformation  had  formed  secret 
societies  for  their  protection  and  the  destruction  of 
Christianity  which  persecuted  them  and  which 
they  so  much  hated.  The  rebuilding  of  the  Temple 
of  Solomon  was  the  dream  of  their  lives.  ...  It 
is  therefore  not  improbable  that  they  admitted 
into  their  secret  conclaves  some  at  least  of  the  dis¬ 
contented  Templars  burning  for  revenge  upon 
those  who  dispossessed  and  suppressed  the  Order. 
That  fact  would  account  for  the  curious  combina¬ 
tion  of  Jewish  and  conventional  allusions  to  be 
found  in  modern  Masonry.  .  .  . 

“The  Jewish  formulas  employed  by  Masonry, 
the  Jewish  traditions  which  run  through  its  cere¬ 
monial,  point  to  a  Jewish  origin  or  to  the  work  of 
Jewish  contrivers.  It  is  easy  to  conceive  how  such 
a  society  could  be  thought  necessary  to  protect 
them  from  Christianity  in  power.  It  is  easy  also 
to  understand  how  the  one  darling  object  of  their 
lives  is  the  rebuilding  of  the  Temple.  Who  knows 
but  behind  the  Atheism  and  desire  of  gain  which 
impels  them  to  urge  on  Christians  to  persecute  the 
Church  and  destroy  it,  there  lies  a  hidden  hope  to 
reconstruct  their  Temple,  and  at  the  darkest 
depths  of  secret-society  plotting,  there  lurks  a 
deeper  society  still  which  looks  to  a  return  to  the 


250  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


land  of  Juda  and  to  the  rebuilding  of  the  Temple  of 
Jerusalem!” 

Whether,  therefore,  as  M.  Cretineau  Joly  sug¬ 
gests,  Nubius  made  use  of  Judaic  hatred  of  Chris¬ 
tianity  for  the  purpose  of  the  Haute  Vente,  or 
whether  the  Jews  made  use  of  the  Haute  Vente  to 
further  their  own  cause,  it  cannot  be  denied  that 
Jews  played  an  important  part  in  secret  societies 
at  this  period.  Piccolo  Tigre  at  any  rate  seems  to 
have  occupied  a  position  of  considerable  authority, 
for  on  January  18,  1822,  we  find  him  issuing  in¬ 
structions  to  the  Haute  Vente  Piedmontaise  in 
these  words : 

“All  Italy  is  covered  with  religious  confraterni¬ 
ties  and  with  penitents  of  diverse  colours.  Do  not 
fear  to  slip  some  of  your  people  into  the  very  midst 
of  these  flocks,  led,  as  they  are,  by  a  stupid  de¬ 
votion.  .  .  .  Gather  together  in  one  place  or 
another — in  the  sacristies  or  chapels  even — these 
tribes  of  yours,  as  yet  ignorant;  put  them  under 
the  pastoral  staff  of  some  virtuous  priest,  well- 
known  but  credulous,  and  easy  to  be  deceived. 
Then  infiltrate  the  poison  into  those  chosen  hearts ; 
infiltrate  it  in  little  doses  and  as  if  by  chance. 
Afterwards,  upon  reflection,  you  will  yourselves  be 
astonished  at  your  success. 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  251 


“The  essential  thing  is  to  isolate  a  man  from  his 
family,  to  cause  him  to  lose  his  morals.  He  is 
sufficiently  disposed  by  the  bent  of  his  character 
to  flee  from  household  cares  and  to  run  after  easy 
pleasures  and  forbidden  joys.  He  likes  long  talks 
in  the  cafes ,  the  idleness  of  spectacles.  Lead  him 
along,  sustain  him,  give  him  an  importance  of 
some  kind,  teach  him  discreetly  to  weary  of  his 
daily  labours,  and  by  this  manoeuvre,  after  having 
separated  him  from  his  wife  and  children,  and 
having  shown  him  how  painful  are  all  duties,  you 
will  inculcate  in  him  the  desire  of  another  existence. 
Man  is  a  born  rebel.  Stir  up  the  desire  of  rebellion 
until  it  becomes  a  conflagration,  but  in  such  a 
manner  that  the  conflagration  does  not  break  out. 
This  is  a  preparation  for  the  great  work  that  you 
have  to  begin. 

“When  you  have  insinuated  into  a  few  souls 
disgust  for  family  and  for  religion  (the  one  nearly 
always  follows  in  the  wake  of  the  other),  let  fall 
certain  words  which  will  provoke  the  desire  of 
being  affiliated  to  the  nearest  lodge.  This  vanity 
of  the  citizen  or  of  the  bourgeois  for  being  enrolled 
in  Freemasonry  is  something  so  banal  and  so  uni¬ 
versal  that  I  am  always  full  of  admiration  for 
human  stupidity.  I  am  not  surprised  to  see  the 
whole  world  knocking  at  the  door  of  all  the  Ven- 
erables  and  asking  these  gentlemen  for  the  honour 
of  being  one  of  the  workmen  chosen  for  the  re¬ 
construction  of  the  Temple  of  Solomon.  ...  To 


252  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


find  yourself  a  member  of  a  lodge,  to  feel  yourself, 
apart  from  your  wife  and  children,  called  upon  to 
guard  a  secret  which  is  never  confided  to  you,  is  for 
certain  natures  a  delight  and  an  ambition.  .  .  . 
It  is  upon  the  lodges  that  we  count  to  double  our 
ranks.  They  form  without  knowing  it  our  pre¬ 
paratory  novitiate.  They  discourse  without  end 
upon  the  dangers  of  fanaticism,  upon  the  happi¬ 
ness  of  social  equality,  and  upon  the  grand  prin¬ 
ciples  of  religious  liberty.  They  launch  amidst 
their  feastings  thundering  anathemas  against  in¬ 
tolerance  and  persecution.  This  is  positively  more 
than  we  require  to  make  adepts.” 

It  was  thus  that  in  1822  as  in  1789  the  con¬ 
spirators  found  their  dupes  in  the  ranks  of  Masonry 
but,  as  Monseigneur  Dillon  points  out : 

‘‘beyond  the  Masons,  though  generally  formed 
from  them,  lay  the  deadly  secret  conclave  which 
.  .  .  used  and  directed  them  for  the  ruin  of  the 
world  and  their  own  selves.” 

This,  then,  was  the  secret  force  at  work  beneath 
the  surface  during  the  period  usually  represented 
to  us  as  the  dawn  of  Socialism.  Many  of  the  men 
who  have  gone  down  to  history  as  the  early 
Socialists,  “champions  of  liberty,”  and  so  forth, 
went  to  the  Haute  Vente  for  guidance;  Saint 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  253 


Simon,  Bazard,  Buonarotti  consulted  Nubius 
“after  the  manner  of  a  Delphic  oracle.”  From 
Russia  Colonel  Oestel,  one  of  the  principal  leaders 
of  the  Dekabrist  outbreak  in  1825,  sent  to  him  for 
orders.  Later  we  find  Mazzini,  already  a  Car- 
bonaro,  aspiring  to  become  a  member  of  the  Haute 
Vente — a  suggestion  dismissed  with  scorn  by 
Nubius.  For  the  methods  of  the  Carbonari  were 
not  those  of  the  Haute  Vente,  which  held  that  the 
mind  rather  than  the  body  should  be  the  point  of 
attack. 

‘  ‘  The  murders  of  which  our  people  render  them¬ 
selves  guilty  ...”  writes  Vindex  to  Nubius,  “are 
for  us  a  shame  and  a  remorse  ...  we  are  too 
advanced  to  content  ourselves  with  such  means. 
.  .  .  Our  predecessors  in  Carbonarism  did  not 
understand  their  power.  It  is  not  in  the  blood  of  an 
isolated  man  or  even  of  a  traitor  that  it  must  be 
exercised;  it  is  on  the  masses  ...  do  not  let  us 
make  martyrs,  but  let  us  popularize  vice  in  the 
multitudes.  Let  them  breathe  it  in  by  their  five 
senses,  let  them  drink  it,  let  them  be  saturated 
in  it.  .  .  .  It  is  corruption  en  masse  that  we  have 
undertaken;  the  corruption  of  the  people  by  the 
clergy  and  the  corruption  of  the  clergy  by  ourselves, 
the  corruption  that  ought  one  day  to  put  the 
Church  in  her  tomb.  The  best  dagger  with  which 


254  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 

to  strike  the  Church  is  corruption.  To  the  work, 
then,  even  to  the  very  end.” 

It  was  thus  that  Mazzini  excited  the  derision 
of  the  Haute  Vente,  for,  as  Nubius  observed  to 
Beppo,  all  his  declamations  on  humanitarianism, 
and  so  on — 

“reduce  themselves  to  a  few  miserable  defeats  or 
to  assassinations  so  vulgar  that  I  should  send  away 
one  of  my  lacqueys  if  he  permitted  himself  to  get 
rid  of  one  of  my  enemies  by  such  shameful  means. 
Mazzini  is  a  demigod  to  fools  by  whom  he  tries  to 
get  himself  proclaimed  the  prophet  of  fraternity. 
.  .  .  In  the  sphere  where  he  acts  poor  Joseph  is 
only  ridiculous;  in  order  to  be  a  complete  wild 
beast  he  will  always  want  for  claws.  He  is  the 
bourgeois  gentilhomme  of  the  secret  societies.” 

Mazzini  on  his  part  suspected  that  secrets  were 
being  kept  from  him  by  the  chiefs  of  the  Haute 
Vente,  and  Malegari,  assailed  by  the  same  fears, 
wrote  from  London  to  Dr.  Breidenstein  these 
significant  words : 

“We  form  an  association  of  brothers  in  all  points 
of  the  globe,  we  have  desires  and  interests  in 
common,  we  aim  at  the  emancipation  of  humanity, 
we  wish  to  break  every  kind  of  yoke,  yet  there  is 


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one  that  is  unseen,  that  can  hardly  be  felt,  yet  that 
weighs  on  us.  Whence  comes  it?  Where  is  it? 
No  one  knows,  or  at  least  no  one  tells.  The  asso¬ 
ciation  is  secret,  even  for  us,  the  veterans  of  secret 
societies.” 

Here,  then,  we  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  mechanism 
of  revolution — the  Socialists  and  Anarchists  like 
animated  marionettes  waving  their  arms,  de¬ 
claiming,  and  all  the  while  pulled  by  wires  from 
behind,  held  in  the  hands  of  their  sinister  directors. 
Doubtless  the  Socialists  imagined  that  they  made 
the  revolution  of  1 848 .  Piccolo  Tigre  can  enlighten 
us  further  on  this  point.  On  January  5,  1846,  he 
writes  to  Nubius: 

“The  journey  I  have  just  accomplished  in 
Europe  has  been  as  fortunate  and  as  productive 
as  I  had  hoped.  Henceforth  nothing  remains  but 
to  put  our  hand  to  the  task  in  order  to  reach  the 
denouement  of  the  comedy.  .  .  .  The  harvest  I 
have  reaped  has  been  abundant  .  .  .  and  if  I  can 
believe  the  news  communicated  to  me  here  (at 
Livorno)  we  are  approaching  the  epoch  we  so 
much  desire.  The  fall  of  thrones  is  no  longer  a 
matter  of  doubt  to  me  now  that  I  have  just  studied 
the  work  of  our  societies  in  France,  in  Switzerland, 
in  Germany,  and  as  far  as  Russia.  The  assault 


256  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


which  in  a  few  years,  and  perhaps  even  in  a  few 
months  from  now,  will  be  made  on  the  princes  of 
the  earth  will  bury  them  beneath  the  wreckage  of 
their  impotent  armies  and  their  decrepit  thrones. 
.  .  .  What  have  we  asked  in  return  for  our 
labours  and  sacrifices?  It  is  not  a  revolution  in 
one  country  or  another.  That  can  always  be 
managed  if  one  wishes  it.  In  order  to  kill  the  old 
world  surely,  we  have  held  that  we  must  stifle 
the  Catholic  and  Christian  germ,  and  you  with  the 
audacity  of  genius  have  offered  yourself  with  the 
sling  of  a  new  David  to  hit  on  the  head  the  ponti¬ 
fical  Goliath.” 

Two  years  later  the  revolution  broke  out  in 
Paris,  and  as  every  book  of  history  will  tell  us,  was 
openly  directed  by  the  secret  societies.  The  con¬ 
nection  between  these  underground  conspiracies 
and  the  second  great  outbreak  of  world  revolution 
is  therefore  not  a  matter  of  surmise  but  of  historical 
fact. — Yours,  etc., 

Nesta  H.  Webster. 

P.S. — The  correspondence  of  the  Haute  Vente 

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quoted  above  is  taken  from  L'Eglise  Romaine  en 
face  de  la  Revolution ,  by  J.  Cretineau  Joly,  who 
published  them  from  the  archives  of  the  Haute 
Vente. 


APPENDIX  B 

To  the  Editor  of  the  “  Morning  Post ” 

Sir, — In  the  fifth  article  of  the  series  “  Behind 
the  Red  Curtain”  the  author  states  that  Marx 
founded  the  International  Working  Men’s  Asso¬ 
ciation.  May  I  be  allowed  to  point  out  that  this 
is  paying  too  much  honour  to  Marx  ?  The  idea  of 
an  International  coalition  of  labour  originated  with 
real  workingmen  animated  by  no  desire  for  bloody 
revolution,  and  it  was  not  until  after  the  famous 
meeting  at  St.  Martin’s  Hall  that  Marx  obtained 
control  of  the  movement.  On  this  point  we  have 
the  evidence  of  James  Guillaume,  the  chronicler 
of  the  Association,  who  was  intimately  acquainted 
with  its  workings.  “It  is  not  true,”  he  writes, 
“that  the  Internationale  was  the  creation  of  Karl 
Marx.  He  remained  completely  outside  the 
preparatory  work  that  took  place  from  1862  to 
1864.  He  joined  the  Internationale  at  the  moment 
when  the  initiative  of  the  English  and  French 
workmen  had  just  created  it.  Like  the  cuckoo,  he 
came  and  laid  his  egg  in  a  nest  which  was  not  his. 
His  plan  from  the  first  day  was  to  make  the  great 
workingmen’s  organization  the  instrument  of  his 
personal  views.”  ( Karl  Marx ,  Pan-Germaniste, 

257 


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p.  2.)  What  were  these  views?  According  to  M. 
Guillaume  they  were  Pan-Germanist,  and  your 
correspondent  has  clearly  indicated  the  support 
given  by  Marx  to  German  Imperialism.  But  he 
also  goes  on  to  inquire  whether  Jewish  interests 
may  not  have  played  a  part  in  Marx’s  policy,  and 
in  this  connection  refers  to  the  feud  between  Marx 
and  Bakunin.  “Can  it  be,”  he  asks,  “that  the 
fight  between  Socialist  and  Anarchist  veiled  and 
covered  another  fight  more  fierce  and  instinctive — 
between  Slav  and  Jew?”  Now  we  know  that 
Bakunin  was  strongly  anti-German,  and  that  it 
was  the  Germanism  of  Imperial  Russia  which 
inspired  many  of  his  diatribes  against  its  govern¬ 
ment.  It  might  therefore  have  been  on  this  ac¬ 
count  that  he  incurred  the  hostility  of  Marx.  His 
attitude  towards  the  Jews,  however,  is  clearly 
defined  in  a  significant  passage.  The  letter  in 
which  this  may  be  found  is  not  included  in  Bakun¬ 
in’s  correspondence,  and  was  only  published  for 
the  first  time  in  1911,  so  that  I  think  it  may  have 
escaped  the  attention  of  your  correspondent.  It 
appears  that  Bakunin  had  been  attacked  in  the 
Paris  paper,  Le  Reveil ,  by  a  German  Jew  named 
Maurice  Hess,  and  it  was  in  reply  to  this  that 
he  wrote  his  polemique  contre  les  juifs  in  October, 
1869.  But  Bakunin  had  evidently  not  overestim¬ 
ated  the  power  of  the  “  formidable  sect”  to  which 
he  referred,  for  his  letter  never  saw  the  light  until 

unearthed  by  the  publishers  of  his  works  forty- 
17 


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two  years  later.  This  is  the  passage  to  which  I 
refer : 

‘  ‘  I  begin  by  begging  you  to  believe  that  I  am  in 
no  way  the  enemy  nor  the  detractor  of  the  Jews. 
Although  I  may  be  considered  a  cannibal,  I  do  not 
carry  savagery  to  that  point,  and  I  assure  you 
that  in  my  eyes  all  nations  have  their  worth.  Each 
is,  moreover,  an  ethnographically  historic  product, 
and  is  consequently  responsible  neither  for  its. 
faults  nor  its  merits.  It  is  thus  that  we  may  ob¬ 
serve  in  connection  with  the  modern  Jews  that 
their  nature  lends  itself  little  to  frank  Socialism. 
Their  history,  long  before  the  Christian  era,  im¬ 
planted  in  them  an  essentially  mercantile  and 
bourgeois  tendency,  with  the  result  that,  considered 
as  a  nation,  they  are  par  excellence  the  exploiters  of 
other  men’s  work,  and  they  have  a  natural  horror 
and  fear  of  the  popular  masses,  whom  they  despise 
moreover,  whether  openly  or  in  secret.  The  habit 
of  exploitation,  whilst  developing  the  intelligence 
of  the  exploiters,  gives  it  an  exclusive  and  disas¬ 
trous  bent  and  quite  contrary  to  the  interests  as 
well  as  to  the  instincts  of  the  proletariat.  I  know 
that  in  expressing  with  this  frankness  my  intimate 
opinion  on  the  Jews  I  expose  myself  to  enormous 
dangers.  Many  people  share  it,  but  very  few  dare 
publicly  to  express  it,  for  the  Jewish  sect,  very 
much  more  formidable  than  that  of  the  Jesuits, 
Catholic  or  Protestant,  constitutes  today  a  verita- 


260  THE  CAUSE  OP  WORLD  UNREST 


ble  power  in  Europe.  It  reigns  despotically  in  com¬ 
merce,  in  the  banks,  and  it  has  invaded  three  quarters 
of  German  journalism  and  a  very  con  siderable  por¬ 
tion  of  the  journalism  of  other  countries.  Woe,  then, 
to  him  who  has  the  clumsiness  to  displease  it!” 

In  these  words  Bakunin  expresses  a  profound 
truth.  Few,  if  any,  educated  Jews  believe  in 
Socialism.  To  say  this  is  merely  to  pay  a  tribute 
to  their  intelligence.  The  Jew  is  essentially  aristo¬ 
cratic  in  his  outlook — that  is  to  say,  he  believes  in 
government  by  the  best  men;  he  knows  the  im¬ 
possibility  of  mob  rule,  and  he  has  learnt  the  lesson 
of  past  revolutions  as  we,  alas!  have  never  learnt 
them.  It  is  therefore  probable  that  Marx  never 
believed  a  word  he  wrote  on  the  “dictatorship  of 
the  proletariat”  and  the  other  shibboleths  he  had 
filched  from  earlier  revolutionary  writers  and 
which  he  used  to  stir  up  the  workers  of  whom  he 
made  his  tools.  It  is  true  that  in  the  above  quoted 
letter  Bakunin  specifies  only  “the  crowd  of  Jewish 
pygmies”  as  the  exploiters  of  the  people  and 
exempts  from  his  strictures  “the  two  Jewish  giants, 
Marx  and  Lassalle.”  But  Bakunin  did  not  yet 
know  Marx.  It  was  not  until  three  years  later, 
when  the  clique  he  refers  to  as  “the  German  Jew 
company  ”  had  turned  him  out  of  the  Internationale 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  261 


that  he  dimly  realized  the  depths  of  Marx’s  perfidy. 
In  the  words  he  then  wrote  we  see  how  completely 
he  had  been  the  dupe  of  this  subtler  brain.  After 
paying  tribute  to  Marx’s  intellect,  Bakunin  goes 
on  to  say : 

“There  was  never  any  frank  intimacy  between 
us.  Our  temperaments  did  not  permit  of  it.  He 
called  me  a  sentimental  idealist,  and  he  was  right ; 
I  called  him  vain,  perfidious,  and  crafty,  and  I  was 
right  too.”  Although  Bakunin  still  endeavours  to 
believe  in  Marx’s  entire  devotion  to  the  cause  of 
the  proletariat  which  “he  never  betrayed  know¬ 
ingly,”  he  is  obliged  nevertheless  to  add,  “yet  he 
compromises  it  immensely  today  by  his  formidable 
vanity,  by  his  malignant  character,  and  by  his 
tendency  to  dictatorship  even  in  the  midst  of  the 
revolutionary  Socialist  Party.” 

Whether,  therefore,  Marx  was  an  agent  of  the 
German  Government  or  of  the  “formidable  sect” 
referred  to  by  Bakunin,  he  was  certainly  never  the 
representative  of  the  workers  who  had  started  the 
Internationale.  It  was  Marx  and  not  the  workers 
who  triumphed.  The  Internationale  perished,  but 
Marx’s  programme  survived,  and  has  since  then 
been  carried  out  “according  to  plan.”  The 
Russian  Revolution  was  not  the  outcome  of  the 


262  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 


Russian  revolutionary  movement,  of  which  the 
principal  leaders  were  throughout  the  Anarchists, 
disciples  of  Bakunin,  on  whom  the  Bolsheviks 
turned  their  machine  guns  at  the  outset  of  their 
reign.  The  Irish  Revolution  now  in  progress  is 
not  the  result  of  the  Irish  national  movement ;  Sinn 
Fein  is  merely  the  tool  of  the  International  or¬ 
ganization  for  carrying  out  the  plan  laid  down  by 
Marx.  As  long  ago  as  1870  this  secret  message 
was  sent  by  Marx  from  London  to  the  Inter¬ 
nationale  in  Geneva : 

1.  England  is  the  only  country  in  which  a  real 
Socialistic  revolution  can  be  made . 

2.  The  English  people  cannot  make  this  revolution. 

3.  Foreigners  must  make  it  for  them. 

4.  The  foreign  members ,  therefore ,  must  retain 
their  seats  at  the  London  board. 

5.  The  point  to  strike  at  first  is  Ireland,  and  in 
Ireland  they  are  ready  to  begin  their  work. 

This  is  what  is  happening  today.  The  chaos 
now  reigning  in  Ireland  is  simply  the  prelude  to 
the  same  condition  of  affairs  in  this  country.  To 
cause  revolution  in  England  is  the  first  and  most 
essential  point  in  the  programme  of  the  Interna¬ 
tional  revolutionaries.  “Every  revolution  on  the 
Continent, ”  said  Marx,  “that  does  not  spread  to 


THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST  263 


England  is  a  storm  in  a  teacup.”  In  other  words, 
England  is  the  pivot  of  the  world’s  civilization. 
If  England  goes  the  whole  world  goes  with  her. 
Marx  was  right  in  his  surmise;  he  was  right,  too, 
in  believing  that  English  workingmen  will  never 
make  this  revolution.  “Foreigners  must  make  it 
for  them.”  They  are  making  it  now.  Shall  we 
allow  them  to  accomplish  their  work  ? 

It  seems  to  me,  then,  that  the  situation  resolves 
itself  into  this.  An  immense  revolutionary  ma¬ 
chine  exists,  and  has  long  existed,  but  now  all  the 
parts  have  been  perfected,  every  cog  is  complete. 
Your  correspondent  has  admirably  described  the 
process  of  its  construction.  Yet  I  do  not  think  it 
can  be  ascribed  to  one  race  only ;  many  hands  have 
worked — French,  Italian,  Russian,  very  few  Eng¬ 
lish,  but  many  German  and  Jewish — and  all  these 
in  turn  have  taken  part  in  its  manipulation.  But 
from  1872  onwards,  this  formidable  engine  of  de¬ 
struction  has  been  mainly  in  the  hands  of  a  section 
of  Germans  and  Jews,  and  it  is  they  who  now  con¬ 
trol  its  workings.  The  essential  thing  therefore  is 
not  merely  to  indicate  the  mechanicians,  but  to 
smash  the  machine  in  the  interests  of  the  whole 
human  race.  For  this  machine  will  destroy  not 
only  those  against  whom  it  is  directed,  but  those 


264  THE  CAUSE  OF  WORLD  UNREST 

by  whom  it  is  handled;  no  provision  has  been 
made  for  the  recoil,  and  “the  iron  battalions  of 
the  proletariat,”  finding  themselves  duped,  will 
turn  in  fury  on  the  men  who  drove  them  forward 
to  destruction.  In  warning  the  world  of  the  con¬ 
spiracy  at  work,  the  Morning  Post  is  rendering  an 
immense  service  to  civilization,  and  those  who 
turn  a  deaf  ear  may  live  to  repent  their  folly  when 
they  find  themselves  engulfed  in  the  general  chaos 
of  world  revolution. — Yours,  etc., 

Nesta  H.  Webster. 

July  17  th. 


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